![Porites porites - #01160](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/520bdacee4b0db6a8089ca60/1533490170717-3OR5J7RGTVCA9LEBDRCE/01160.jpg)
CORALS
Porites porites - #01160
Porites porites - #01160
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.