species: Millepora exaesa in Lizard Island Field Guide (Lizard Island Field Guide)
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Millepora exaesa


©Anne Hoggett: A large colony of Millepora exaesa at Cod Hole, Ribbon Reef 10.

©Anne Hoggett: Surface detail showing pores; a large colony of Millepora exaesa at Cod Hole, Ribbon Reef 10.

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Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Hydrozoa
Order Anthoathecata
Family Milleporidae
Genus Millepora
Species Millepora exaesa

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Distinguishing features

"Submassive short knobbed branches, growing upward; or free-living, encrusted
on coral fragments; no cyclosystem arrangement" (Razak and Hoeksema, 2003).

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References

References that assist with identification

  • Razak, T.B. and B.W. Hoeksema (2003). The hydrocoral genus Millepora (Hydrozoa: Capitata: Milleporidae) in Indonesia. Zool. Verh. Leiden, 345: 313-336. LIRS catalog number 90297.