Leptastrea 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

Leptastrea sp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Leptastrea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Scleractinia; family: Leptastreidae; genus: Leptastrea; scientificNameAuthorship: Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Aldabra N 1, Aldabra W 1, Alphonse N 1, Astove W 1, Poivre E 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 8.8 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 33 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 can be massive, flat or dome-shaped or, as observed here, encrusting. Maximum recorded size: 50 cm across. Corallites raised unevenly from the coenosteum, giving the colonies a bumpy appearance. Corallites are 2.5 to 6.0 mm in diameter. Colouration shades of brown, but tends to have a white upper surface with darker corallites. Goniastrea looks similar, but tends to be of uniform colour (Fig. 88).