Montipora sp. indet.

Fassbender, Nico, Stefanoudis, Paris V, Filander, Zoleka Nontlantla, Gendron, Gilberte, Mah, Christopher L, Mattio, Lydiane, Mortimer, Jeanne A, Moura, Carlos J, Samaai, Toufiek, Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, Wagner, Daniel, Walton, Rowana & Woodall, Lucy C, 2021, Reef benthos of Seychelles - A field guide, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 65970-65970 : 65970

Montipora sp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Montipora; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Scleractinia; family: Acroporidae; genus: Montipora; scientificNameAuthorship: Blainville, 1830; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Aldabra N 1, Aldabra W 1, Alphonse N 1, Astove W 1, D'Arros N 1, Desroches S 1, Poivre E 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 8.8 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 63.1 m; locationRemarks: First Descent : Seychelles Expedition ; Identification : identifiedBy: Gilberte Gendron , Nico Fassbender , Paris Stefanoudis , Rowana Walton ; dateIdentified: 2019, 2020; identificationRemarks: identified only from imagery; Event : samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR SCUBA; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Colonies are thickly encrusting, sub-massive, plating. Maximum recorded size: 1.2 m across. Corallites are extremely small (0.25 to 1.0 mm) and thus not visible on video footage. Very rough, grainy texture, often with several bumps on colony surface. Colours ranging from beige to dark shades of brown, some species with variable additional pigmentation like purple, red and violet (Fig. 77).