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Coral Identification, Need help on taxonomy! :D

Oct 12, '07 9:19 PM
by Piepie for everyone

they're on hi-res but I'm still learning how to steady out my hands to avoid the blurs. but the corallites should be clear enough to identify (i hope). i've named a few already but i just want to be really really sure. this is for my thesis guys! thanks :D

Concrete 1 - Porites negrosensis

Concrete 20 - Gardineroseris planulata

Concrete 21 - Unidentified
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Concrete 23 - Porites cumulatus

Concrete 24 - Heliopora sp.
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Concrete 26 - Porites rus

Concrete 31

Concrete 32 - Porites cumulatus

Concrete 33 - Porites cumulatus

Concrete 34 - Porites rus

Concrete 38 - Porites sp.

Concrete 39 - Porites horizontalata

Concrete 40 - Porites rus

Concrete 40 (2)

Concrete 44 - Lobophyllia sp.

Concrete 49

Concrete 50

Concrete 52 - Porites rus

Concrete 53

Concrete 57

Concrete 58

Concrete 7

Lime 28 - Pachyseris gemmae

Lime 37

Lime 42 - Porites cylindrica

Lime 56

Lime 87 - Porites sp.

Lime 1

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8 Comments

neofelisnebulosa wrote on Oct 16, '07

wow, great photos of corals. i am sorry i can't help but interesting though. hope your thesis doing well and sure you get help from our other fellow friends. godd luck.

mabelledj wrote on Oct 16, '07

Try the book "INDO-PACIFIC CORAL REEF FIELD GUIDE" by Dr. Gerald R. Allen & Roger Steene. I have a copy of the book and would really like to help identify some of your photos. The thing is, there are a lot of similar looking corals and I might mis-identify them. :-)

mabelledj wrote on Oct 16, '07

If it's any help, this one looks like something from the Faviidae family.

shikalukafalala wrote on Oct 20, '07

neofelisnebulosa said

wow, great photos of corals. i am sorry i can't help but interesting though. hope your thesis doing well and sure you get help from our other fellow friends. godd luck.

thanks :D i'm still starting though, great compliment! you've helped by just boosting my enthusiasm. thanks again!

shikalukafalala wrote on Oct 20, '07

mabelledj said

that'd be so great. i need an extra eye to confirm and argue with because my adviser just left for palau and won't be back soon. i envy you for having the book! i've been looking every bookstore in the philippines and they don't seem to have any coral references. you have to order them from the internet or outside! that'd be too expensive. i'm getting references from AIMS (australian institute of marine science). they got an online database for the whole population of corals in the world :D it's really interesting :D

mabelledj wrote on Oct 20, '07

try the dive shops. they just might have fish-indentification books that have sections on corals. :-)

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