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Identification, Fungiid Behavior,
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Fungiid Reproduction, Stony/True Coral,
Coral System Set-Up, Coral System
Lighting, Stony Coral Identification,
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Polyp Stony Corals,
Stony or True Corals, Order Scleractinia,
Dyed Corals, /The Best Livestock For Your Reef
Aquarium: Plate Corals, Family
Fungiidae, Pt. 3
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Genus Herpetolitha Eschscholtz 1825. Irregularly elongate
colonies (not just individual polyps) with an raised central area
and axial furrow containing many expansive mouths. | 
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Herpetolitha limax (Houtthyn 1772). Colonies become elongate
with age, with rounded ends. Numerous mouths inside and outside the
axial furrow. Below, colonies in Fiji. |
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Genus Lithophyllon Rehberg 1892. Colonies flat, attached with one to
many mouths. |
Lithophyllon mokai Hoeksema 1989. Up to three inches in
diameter. Central corallite obvious. |  
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Genus Podabachia: Colonial. Leafy colonies, attached to substrate;
look like encrusting bowls with lines encrusting plate like pieces.
Undersides costate. Genus Polyphyllia Quoy & Gaimard 1833:
Mobile colonies whose form is a high arch. Septa look like small petals
on close inspection. Mouth, axial furrow not easily detected. |
Polyphyllia novaehiberniae (Lesson 1831). Fused septa-costae
that look like oblong depressions, in rows with some running
perpendiculat to others. Numerous small tentacles look like hair.
Colonies below in Fiji. |
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Polyphyllia talpina (Lamarck 1801). Tapered septa appearance. Long,
numerous tentacles. Below, two aquarium specimens and one in Pulau
Redang, Malaysia. |
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Genus Sandalolitha Quelch 1884. Large, mobile roughly circular
colonies of heavy dome-shaped construction. Exsert, heavy corallites
face directly outward. |
Sandalolitha robusta Quelch 1886. Characteristic staggered
arrangement of corallites. Gilis/Lombok, Aquarium and N. Sulawesi
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Bibliography/Further Reading:
Coral Search Borneman, Eric H. 2001. Aquarium Corals;
Selection, Husbandry and Natural History. Microcosm-TFH NJ, USA. 464 pp.
Fossa, Svein A. & Alf Jacob Nilsen. 1998 (1st ed.). The Modern Coral
Reef Aquarium, v.2 (Cnidarians). Bergit Schmettkamp Verlag, Bornheim,
Germany. 479pp. Hoover, John. 1998. Hawai'i's Sea Creatures. A
Guide to Hawai'i's Marine Invertebrates. Mutual Publishing, Honolulu HI.
366pp. Humann, Paul. 1993. Reef Coral Identification; Florida,
Caribbean, Bahamas. New World Publications, Inc. Jacksonville, FL.
239pp. Vargas, Tony. 1997. Feature Coral: Fungia. FAMA 10/97.
Veron, J.E.N. 1986. Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. U. of HI
press, Honolulu. 644 pp. Veron, J.E.N. 2000. Corals of the World.
Australian Institute of Marine Science. Queensland, Australia. three
volumes. To: Pt. 1,
Pt. 2
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