Typical form, Kualoa, O'ahu, 6 feet

Encrusting form, Puako, Hawai'i, 10 feet

Haleiwa Trench, O'ahu, 20 feet

Sharks Cove, O'ahu, 30 feet

An uncommon species found as encrusting masses or rounded, fist-sized lumps unattached to the substrate in shallow water.  Gray or brown elevated calices 3 to 5mm in diameter on a smooth yellow, green, or cream base.  Cyphastrea ocellina has calices 1 to 2mm in diameter.  Hawaii & the Western Pacific.  Formerly known as Leptastrea bottae and Leptastrea inaequalis.

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