Solenastrea hyades (Dana, 1846).


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CC species number = 133

Photograph: Scale bar is approx 1 cm.

Synonyms: None.

Morphologic Description:

Colony Form: plocoid
Colony Shape: massive, irregular mound-shaped
Colony Surface: bumpy
Budding Type: extramural
Corallite Diameter: 2.5-3 mm
Coenosteum Texture: vesicular
Inner Septal Margins: tertiary septa fused
Costae: very reduced or absent
Lobes: paliform lobes
Columella Structure: trabecular
Wall Structure: septothecal


Last updated on February 15, 1997-afb.


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