Size: upto 25 cm.

 

Key Features: Usually pale brown or blue (which may photograph purple). Colonies are massive. Corallites are a mixture; some slightly exsert, others foveolate (funnel-shaped). Tuberculae and papillae are absent.

 

Diet: Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light.

 

Habitat: This species occurs in most reef environments. It prefers tropical reef environments. This species is found to at least 30 m.

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

 

 

 

 

 

References:

IUCN Red List. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/133635/0

 

Montipora venosa. In Australian Institute of Marine Science. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0279

 

Montipora venosa. In Reeflex , the Marine Aquarium Encyclopedia. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://www.reeflex.net/tiere/1770_Montipora_venosa.htm

 

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

 

Photo Courtesy

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