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Porites furcata
Porites furcata is a colonial coral forming clumps of short, slender lobes with rounded tips, often densely packed together. It sometimes forms extensive patches several square metres (yards) in area.
1000 Steps, Bonaire.
Spotted on Sep 10, 2017
Submitted on Dec 16, 2017
10 Comments
Daniele,
I looked ata link here: they seem to be that color
http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?s...
but there are also brownish ones of this sp.
In general the corals looked OK in Bonaire, not a lot of bleaching although there was some dead broken ones that could be the result of stormy weather. Cheers :-)
Thanks Marta!
I don't think so. It looked like its natural color.
Marta, someone asked on PN Worldwide whether this coral is bleached. What do you think?
Thank you :-)
Awesome! Congrats, Marta.
Congrats Marta. Lovely location.
Beautiful find Marta,congrats on the SOTD and thanks for sharing
Nice! Congratulations Marta!
Congratulations Marta, this coral with its remarkable structure has earned you another Spotting of the Day!
"We're literally showing you the finger today with this amazing Branched Finger Coral (Porites furcata) as our Spotting of the Day! This stony coral (order Scleractinia) can form large carpets in shallow reef areas of the Caribbean Sea and western Atlantic Ocean".
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