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Project Noah Nature School
a biologist working for the research service of the DENR with interests and work on ICZM; Remote Sensing and GIS.
Davao del Norte
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hope i was able to help...
im sure its a type of Acropora but i just cant get a fix on it.. sorry.
same genus... but then again, we can only properly identify this unless we have a sample of the skeleton... which i do not subscribe to it.. hehehe
Characters: Colonies are massive or flat and usually fully meandroid, with thin walls. Septa are thin and slightly exsert. Columellae are weakly developed and there are no columella centres. Colour: A variety of dull or bright colours. Similar species: Platygyra ryukyuensis. Resembles Goniastrea favulus underwater. Habitat: Most reef environments, especially back reef margins. Abundance: Usually uncommon.
Source reference: Veron (2000). Taxonomic references: Wijsman-Best (1972), Chevalier (1975), Veron, Pichon and Wijsman-Best (1977). Additional identification guides: Sheppard and Sheppard (1991), Nishihira and Veron (1995).
actually a D. heliopora has a very "clean" evenly distributed corallites with a domed shape and an even surface.
lobophylla have less distinct protuberances and resembles more like a "towel". whereas sinularia have a more pronounced protuberance.
hi Blogs! actually they are rather sinuous however not very elongated which is characteristic of symphyllia. on the other hand, favids have distinct conical corallites. hope this helps!
perhaps an Acropora palmerae? unless we can see the skeleton and its attachment..
Sinularia brassica May 1898. Family Alcyoniidae.
This very variable species now incorporates that previously designated as Sinularia dura. It rarely attains a size >50 cm. While the colonies are usually thin encrustations, they are sometimes cup-shaped or have short, slightly branched lobes and are almost foliaceous.
They are usually a dark brown, occasionally cream or grey, and are finely lobed to a slight or marked degree, often in a radial pattern. The heads of the club-shaped sclerites are characteristically forked and antler-like. While S. brassica may occur anywhere on a reef, it appears to be sediment tolerant (as illustrated) and is characteristically abundant at the reef-sediment interface.
source: Soft corals of the Indian Ocean
just trying to do my share... by the way, for those of you guys who really take the time to photograph corals, it would be of great help for the identification if you can take shots on a macro scale to include some fine details of the coralites. thanks mucho!
