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updated 3/10/2014

Family Poritidae

HAWAII - ENDEMIC

Porites duerdeni  endemic.gif (1686 bytes)

Honaunau, Hawaii, 30 feet

Keauhou, Hawaii, 90 feet

 

Honaunau, Hawaii, 30 feet

 

Haleiwa Trench, Oahu, 15 feet


P. duerdeni (top), P. compressa (bottom)		  

  KNOBBY FINGER CORAL

Rare in protected waters of Hawaii & Maui.  Large yellowish green hemispherical colonies with spherical branch tips.  Calices are small and deep with sharp solid outer walls, retracted polyps are below the surrounding area.  Similar to Finger Coral.  Endemic to Hawaii.

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