Thin finger coral
Porites divaricata
Lesueur, 1820
Description:
Colonies with finger-like widely spaced branches that often divide near the tips.
Color:
Bluish to pale lilac and purple.
Corallites:
Calices narrowly spaced with a poorly developed wall. Corallites with 12 septa, less than 1.4 mm in diameter. Columella trabecular and discontinuous.
Habitat:
A shallow water species, most common on back reefs.
Distribution:
Common to abundant South Florida, Bahamas and Caribbean.