Size: upto 25 cm.

 

Key Features: Usually brown or with brown walls and grey or green valleys. Colonies are massive and meandroid, with thick walls. Septa are uniformly exsert and are neat and rounded. Columellae may be well developed, but do not form distinct centres.

 

Diet: Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light

 

Habitat: This species occurs in most tropical reef environments, especially back reef margins. This species is found on the back and foreslope of the reef and in lagoons. Platygyra species occupy a variety of reef habitats. They may form colonies a meter or more in diameter.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

References:

IUCN Red List. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/133651/0

 

Platygyra lamellina. In Australian Institute of Marine Science. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0302

 

Platygyra lamellina. In Reeflex , the Marine Aquarium Encyclopedia. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://www.reeflex.net/tiere/2243_Platygyra_lamellina.htm

 

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