Size: upto 30cm.

 

Key Features: Usually cream, pink or brown with pale margins. Colonies are composed of thin unifacial laminae sometimes forming tiers or whorls. Corallites are arranged in rows between coenosteum ridges, which are conspicuous and usually perpendicular to colony margins.

 

Diet: Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light.

 

Habitat: This species occurs in shallow, tropical reef environments. It is mostly found on protected upper reef slopes. This species is found to at least 20 m.

 

Conservation status: Near Threatened on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

 

 

 

 

 

References:

IUCN Red List. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/summary/133071/0

 

Montipora foliosa . In Reeflex , the Marine Aquarium Encyclopedia. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://www.reeflex.net/tiere/1378_Montipora_foliosa.htm

 

Montipora foliosa. In Australian Institute of Marine Science. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0255

 

Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM) Project, Second Interim Progress Report, GEER Foundation, June 2012

 

Photo Courtesy

Charlie Veron. Australian Institute of Marine  Science. Licensed under CC BY-NC 3.0 via Creative Commons