Foraminifera source details
Authority given as (Bruggeman) in Fauré (1977), Sheer & Pillai in Sheppard (1998). [details]
Authority given as in Sheppard 1998 <308>, main text; in the list, authority is given as (Head). [details]
A magnificent and large Acropora, reaching a metre or more in height and breadth. Main branches sweep upwards, ... [details]
Large, arborescent colonies with a unique shape, reaching 2 m tall and 1 m wide. A single stem, or multiple ... [details]
The coenosteum of this species is granular and smooth to the naked eye. There are no very large axial corallites. ... [details]
This is a loosely branched, tabular coral, reaching up to 2 m diameter. Branches anastomose, but less than in other ... [details]
So far this genus has been found only in the Red Sea and Chagos Archipelago. It occurs only deep on the reef slope. ... [details]
Septa are striking, with triangular, large and very regular teeth. Coralla are elongate and large (up to 50 cm ... [details]
This is a regularly meandroid coral, with very even series of corallites. Valleys are long and regular, running ... [details]
This is an entirely ramose species. While most members of the species develop ramose projections, this species is ... [details]
This species has phacellloid corallites up to 4 cm across. They are mostly monocentric to tri-centric, due to ... [details]
This species has calices which are very large, reaching 2 cm diameter. Because of this is easily recognised. ... [details]
Corals are circular, not strongly arched. Septa are very neat and regular. Costal spines are fine. There are no ... [details]
Corals are usually oval in general form, though very contorted. They may remain attached to the substrate even when ... [details]
Colonies are hemispherical or short thick columns. Calices are 3-5 mm in diameter. Columellae are small. Living ... [details]
This has small colonies which rarely exceed 30 cm across; they almost always comprise a single thick and fairly ... [details]
Basically a massive coral with vertical, thick spires projecting from the base. It is not one of the truly ramose ... [details]
This is the only encrusting species of Stylophora known. Colonies reach a maximum diameter of about 25 cm, and ... [details]
This species is a stoutly branching form, usually of similar shape and size to heavier Stylophora pistillata, but ... [details]
Monocentric calices are 6-13 mm diameter. Calices are fairly rounded and thick walled, but a varied and even a high ... [details]
Spelled S. mammillata in Vine (1986). [details]
Torres Strait, Great Barrier Reef (Veron, 1986). [details]
Swain Reefs, Great Barrier Reef (Veron, 1986). [details]