Porites is a genus of
scleractinianScleractinia, also called Stony corals, are exclusively marine animals; they are very similar to sea anemones but generate a hard skeleton. They first appeared in the Middle Triassic and replaced tabulate and rugose corals that went extinct at the end of the Permian...
coralCorals are marine organisms from the class Anthozoa and exist as small sea anemone-like polyps, typically in colonies of many identical individuals...
which is characterised by a finger-like
morphologyIn biology morphology is the form, structure and configuration of an organism.This includes aspects of the outward appearance as well as the form and structure of the internal parts like bones and organs...
. Members of this genus have widely spaced
caliceThe CALICE collaboration is R&D group of more than 280 physicists and engineers from around the world, working together to develop new, high performance detectors for high energy positron-electron experiments at future International Linear Collider...
s, a well-developed wall reticulum and are
bilaterally symmetricalSymmetry in biology is the balanced distribution of duplicate body parts or shapes. The body plans of most multicellular organisms exhibit some form of symmetry, either radial symmetry or bilateral symmetry or "spherical symmetry". A small minority exhibit no symmetry .In nature and biology,...
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Porites is a genus of
scleractinianScleractinia, also called Stony corals, are exclusively marine animals; they are very similar to sea anemones but generate a hard skeleton. They first appeared in the Middle Triassic and replaced tabulate and rugose corals that went extinct at the end of the Permian...
coralCorals are marine organisms from the class Anthozoa and exist as small sea anemone-like polyps, typically in colonies of many identical individuals...
which is characterised by a finger-like
morphologyIn biology morphology is the form, structure and configuration of an organism.This includes aspects of the outward appearance as well as the form and structure of the internal parts like bones and organs...
. Members of this genus have widely spaced
caliceThe CALICE collaboration is R&D group of more than 280 physicists and engineers from around the world, working together to develop new, high performance detectors for high energy positron-electron experiments at future International Linear Collider...
s, a well-developed wall reticulum and are
bilaterally symmetricalSymmetry in biology is the balanced distribution of duplicate body parts or shapes. The body plans of most multicellular organisms exhibit some form of symmetry, either radial symmetry or bilateral symmetry or "spherical symmetry". A small minority exhibit no symmetry .In nature and biology,...
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Species
- Porites annae Crossland, 1952
- †Porites anguillensis Vaughan, 1919
- Porites aranetai Nemenzo, 1955
- Porites arnaudi Reyes-Bonilla & Carricart-Ganivet, 2000
- Porites astreoides
Porites astreoides is a coral that belongs to the genus Porites.- References :* *...
Lamarck, 1816
- Porites attenuata Nemenzo, 1955
- Porites australiensis Vaughan, 1918
- Porites baueri Squires, 1959
- Porites branneri Rathbun, 1887
- Porites brighami Vaughan, 1907
- Porites cocosensis Wells, 1950
- Porites colonensis Zlatarski, 1990
- Porites columnaris Klunzinger, 1879
- Porites compressa Dana, 1846
- Porites cumulatus Nemenzo, 1955
- Porites cylindrica Dana, 1846
- Porites decasepta Clareboudt, 2006
- Porites deformis Nemenzo, 1955
- Porites densa Vaughan, 1918
- Porites desilveri Veron, 2000
- Porites divaricata LeSueur, 1821
- Porites echinulata Klunzinger, 1879
- Porites eridani Umbgrove, 1940
- Porites evermanni Vaughan, 1907
- Porites flavus Veron, 2000
- Porites furcata Lamarck, 1816
- Porites gabonensis Gravier, 1911
- Porites harrisoni Veron, 2000
- Porites heronensis Veron, 1985
- Porites horizontalata Hoffmeister, 1925
- Porites iwayamaensis Eguchi, 1938
- Porites latistellata Quelch, 1886
- Porites lichen Dana, 1846
- Porites lobata Dana, 1846
- Porites lutea Quoy & Gaimard, 1833
- †Porites macdonaldi Vaughan, 1919
- Porites mayeri Vaughan, 1918
- Porites monticulosa Dana, 1846
- Porites murrayensis Vaughan, 1918
- Porites myrmidonensis Veron, 1985
- Porites napopora Veron, 2000
- Porites negrosensis Veron, 1990
- Porites nigrescens Dana, 1846
- Porites nodifera Klunzinger, 1879
- Porites okinawensis Veron, 1990
- Porites ornata Nemenzo, 1971
- Porites panamensis Verrill, 1866
- Porites porites Pallas, 1766
- †Porites portoricensis Vaughan, 1919
- Porites profundus Rehberg, 1892
- Porites pukoensis Vaughan, 1907
- Porites rugosa Fenner & Veron, 2000
- Porites rus Forskål, 1775
- Porites sillimaniani Nemenzo, 1976
- Porites solida Forskål, 1775
- Porites somaliensis Gravier, 1910
- Porites stephensoni Crossland, 1952
- Porites sverdrupi Durham, 1947
- †Porites trinitatis Vaughan in Vaughan and Hoffmeister, 1926
- Porites tuberculosa Veron, 2000
- Porites undulata Klunzinger, 1879
- Porites vaughani Crossland, 1952
- Porites verrilli Rehberg, 1893
- †Porites waylandi Foster, 1986