Hydnophora sp. indet.
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Hydnophora sp. indet. |
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Hydnophora sp. indet. View in CoL View at ENA
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Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Hydnophora; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Scleractinia; family: Merulinidae; genus: Hydnophora; scientificNameAuthorship: Fischer von Waldheim, 1807; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Alphonse N 1, Desroches S 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 10 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 10 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
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Colonies massive, encrusting or branching. Maximum recorded size: 30 cm across. The colony surface is covered in skeletal bumps ( ‘hydnophores’) that appear as lemon-squeezers or juicers, with small corallites, 3.0 to 4.0 mm in size, clustered in between. Hydnophores are often brighter than the corallites, with the latter being commonly brown to grey-green (Fig. 95 View Figure 95 ).
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