Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 30 feet

Leone, Tutuila, American Samoa, 10 feet

Molokini Back Wall, 40 feet

Moku Manu Pinnacle, Oahu, 90 feet

Moku Manu Pinnacle, Oahu, 90 feet

P. varians & P. maldivensis

Lana'i Lookout, Oahu, 20 feet

Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 25 feet

Uncommon as small encrustations with on shaded vertical surfaces.  May also form small plates with finger-like projections.  Calices are widely separated, elevated and septa are angular with flaring ends, columella a large dome.  Rusty brown to gray, raised surfaces light.  Hawaii, Indo-Pacific & Tropical Eastern Pacific.  Formerly known as Pavona pollicata.

All coral skeletons illustrated are from scientific collections taken prior to 1998.