Echinopora 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

Echinopora sp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Echinopora; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Scleractinia; family: Merulinidae; genus: Echinopora; scientificNameAuthorship: Lamarck, 1816; 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: 52 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 encrusting, laminar or branching. Maximum recorded size: 1 m across. Corallites are plocoid, uniformly shaped and elevated from the colony surface, 3.5 to 4.5 mm; they are often visible on video footage. The surface of the colony appears rough due to irregularly shaped septo-costae with spines. Colour shades of brown to grey with brightly coloured corallite centres (green) and white growing edges. Echinophyllia looks similar, but has larger corallites with spines that are arranged in distinct rows. Astreopora has smaller corallites (Fig. 92).