Pavona 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

Pavona sp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Pavona; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Scleractinia; family: Agariciidae; genus: Pavona; scientificNameAuthorship: Lamarck, 1801; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Aldabra N 1, Aldabra W 1, Alphonse N 1, Astove W 1, Desroches S 1, Poivre E 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 8.8 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 33.1 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 typically <40 cm in the longest dimension, massive, columnar, laminar or encrusting, sometimes contorted. Laminar colonies are bifacial. Corallites between 0.5 to 3.0 mm in size, walls poorly developed or absent, centres in small shallow depressions surrounded by acute ridges. Colours range from beige to darker shades of brown. Might be confused with Leptoseris , but the latter has less acute ridges between corallites and colonies are unifacial. Massive and columnar colonies were not observed here (Fig. 80).