Thick finger coral
Porites porites
(Pallas, 1766)
Description:
Colonies with stout, irregular, stubby branches with blunt and often enlarged tips.
Color:
Ranges from beige to yellow-brown.
Corallites:
Calices narrowly spaced with a poorly developed wall. Corallites with 12 septa, 1.8 to 2.0 mm in diameter. Columella trabecular and discontinuous.
Habitat:
Most common on moderate to deeper reefs, down to 50 m.
Distribution:
Common to abundant South Florida, Bahamas and Caribbean.