| Colonies
10-12cm, branching with stumpy branches. Corallites tiny, shallow
and hexagonal. Polyps tiny with short tentacles. Colours brown, yellow,
green, bluish and purplish. Commonly seen on many of our shores. |
Colonies
15-30cm. Boulder-shaped with short, crinkled branches. Tiny corallites
surface with a sandpaper-like texture. With the tentacles extended,
the surface has a furry look. Colours include green, blue to yellow,
brown and pinkish. Commonly seen on many of our shores. |
Colonies
15-20cm, may be branching or encrusting. Short and thick branches,
tips are white and lack polyps. Corallites tiny with large ridges
between them. Polyps are tiny. Colours beige or brown, sometimes purplish.
Sometimes seen on some of our shores.
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Colonies
10-30cm, encusting or contorted upright plates. Surface with thick
short ridges forming maze-like pattern, with texture of fine lines
perpendicular to the ridges. Colours brown, gree, blue. Rare.
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Colonies
15-30cm, branching with stumpy branches. Internal skeleton is blue
but on the outside, they are usually brown. Polyps tiny (about 0.5cm)
with 8 tentacles with fine branches. They are soft corals although
they have a hard skeleton. Commonly seen on many of our shores. |
