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Hump coral

Scientific name: Porites lobata

Size: From 2.5 to 10 foot

Color: Beige, brown, yellow

Distinguishing feature: Very massive block, looks like a lava flow very porous when you touch it

Where did we see it: Bali and Gili, Zanzibar, Thailand, French polynesia, Mayotte, Maldives, Raja Ampat, Egypt

Hump coral of Mayotte

Hump coral

Scientific name: Porites lobata

Size: From 2.5 to 10 foot

Color: Beige, brown, yellow

Distinguishing feature: Very massive block, looks like a lava flow very porous when you touch it

Where did we see it: Bali and Gili, Zanzibar, Thailand, French polynesia, Mayotte, Maldives, Raja Ampat, Egypt

In detail

It's one of the most important corals, especially in the Indian Ocean, Pacific and Red Sea.

It's also a coral that grows very slowly, about 0.4 inch / year, but its body is very solid.

Thanks to the hardness of this body, when it dies, it becomes a substrate on which many organisms come to live.

This makes it one of the bioconstructive corals, which actively participates in the construction of coral reefs.

It's the most common species of Porite genus coral.

The different species of Hard corals we have seen

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