Isopora 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

Isopora sp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Isopora; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Scleractinia; family: Acroporidae; genus: Isopora; scientificNameAuthorship: Studer, 1879; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Aldabra W 1, Alphonse N 1, Astove W 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 8.8 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 15 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 are sub-massive or thickly encrusted often with thick club-like branches or robust cylindrical branches. Maximum recorded size: 1 m across. Corallites up to 4.0 mm in diameter. Colours range from cream, pale brown to green. Can be confused with Montipora or Acropora spp., with Montipora having much smaller corallites. Acropora forms thinly encrusting colonies without the robust columns that Isopora forms (Fig. 76).