Size: upto 300 cm.

 

Key Features: Mostly dull greys and browns. Colonies may form large patches of reefs. Branches are cylindrical and commonly fuse. Growth-forms and corallite characters are extremely variable so much so that single reef patches are composites of distinct races.

 

Diet: Plankton, Zooxanthellae / Light

 

Habitat: This species is found in shallow, protected reef and lagoon environments, generally to depths of 30 m. This species forms monospecific stands in protected areas at medium depths.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

References:

IUCN Red List. http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/133349/0

 

Porites compressa. In Australian Institute of Marine Science. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://coral.aims.gov.au/factsheet.jsp?speciesCode=0601

 

Porites compressa. In Reeflex , the Marine Aquarium Encyclopedia. Retrieved on June 18, 2014 from http://www.reeflex.net/tiere/5246_Porites_compressa.htm

 

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

 

 

Photo Courtesy

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

 Hump Coral or Finger Coral (Porites compressa)