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Porites astreoides
Photo take at -35 feet in a Caribbean Reef this a common coral that has a variety of colors from mustard to bright green beautiful star polyps.Colonies plate-like in shallow, surging water, but forming rounded heads and domes in deeper water. The surface is lumpy and covered with closely set corallites, giving the colonies a porous appearance. Colonies up to 60 cm.
Found from Florida all the Caribbean sea to the North of Brazil.
Spotted on Mar 15, 2012
Submitted on Mar 15, 2012
16 Comments
Thanks Misako and Karen!
beautiful!
What a stunning neon green! Awesome spot Gerardo!
Gracias Harsuame!
Increíble que color tan hermoso
Thanks Carbon anytime your are more than welcome!!
Thanks Nopayahnah i was tree week outside the water we have very bad weather and finally i get in water again.
Thanks Luis and Frank
hahah Thanks Argybee
Thanks Serdio you should try diving, my instructor just to tell me Diving Can Change Life´s. i´m sure you will love it.
Nice ! Hope some day I could come to see you in Puerto Morelos to try to see incredible things like that.
Really beautiful!
Love it! the colors are amazing.
I am seriously thinking to do a diving course, and your pictures only make that wish stronger! Great photo, pal.
It's so nice for us when you have been diving again, Gerardo. You share wonderful spottings.
That's truly extraordinary Gerardo. Super shots.
I think I prefer the final pic myself...
(actually isn't this is a rubber shower cap:)
Thanks Ava!!
Lovely!