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Porites
/The Best Livestock For Your Reef Aquarium:
Genus Alveopora, Family Poritidae
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Alveopora spp. Tubular polyps with twelve tentacles per polyp. Massive
or branching colonies. Skeletal structural is overall light, made of
interconnecting rods and spines. Corallites made up of lattice-like walls and
septa, making up a "columella tangle" (after Veron 2000).
| Alveopora daedalea (Forsskal 1775). Colonies as thick
plates or columns (up to a meter tall). Corallites with alternating short,
long septa. Tentacles appear squared off, six each tall, short in number.
Red Sea image. |
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| Alveopora gigas Veron 1985. Blunt-ended irregular
corallite structure. Polyps up to 100mm long by 20mm diameter when
extended. Brown to greenish in color. Common in Southeast Australian
turbid waters, rare elsewhere. Aquarium image. |
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| Alveopora japonica Eguchi 1968. Southern Japan over
to China. Small colonies (less than 40mm across), hemispherical to
encrusting. Septa short with short, fine spines which seldom connect (from
Veron 2000). Usually dark green in color with stripe on their knob-like
tentacle tips. Aquarium image. |
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| Alveopora sp. White, branching, at least arborose colony. Queensland,
Australia. |
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