Size: upto 80 cm.

 

Key Features: Variable dull or bright colours. Colonies are massive or flat and usually fully meandroid, with thin walls. Septa are thin and slightly exsert. Columellae are weakly developed and there are no columella centres.

 

 

Diet: Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light

 

Habitat: This species occurs in most reef environments, especially back reef margins. This species is found on subtidal rock and rocky reefs, on the back and foreslope of the reef, and in lagoons. It may be found in the outer reef channel. This species is found to 30 m. Platygyra species occupy a variety of reef habitats. They may form colonies a meter or more in diameter.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

References:

IUCN Red list. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/133068/0

 

Platygyra sinensis. In Australian Institute of Marine Science. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0304

 

Platygyra sinensis. In Reeflex , the Marine Aquarium Encyclopedia. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://www.reeflex.net/tiere/4242_Platygyra_sinensis.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