Coral Reef Pictures

Porites

Characteristics

Colonies have nodular anastomosing branches or columns with encrusting or laminar bases. In turbid water colonies are predominantly laminar. Colour: Pale

or dark green, yellow, purple or brown. Similar species: Porites cocosensis. See also P. lichen, which is best distinguished by its different growth-forms and larger corallites, although the size range overlaps. Corallites are closest to P. vaughani.

Family:	Poritidae
Genus:	Porites
Habitat:	Sloping Reef
Distribution:	Widespread
Abundance:	Common

Source Reference:

Veron (2000). Taxonomic reference: Veron and Pichon (1982). Identification guides: Veron (1986), Nishihira and Veron (1995).

What you need to know about – scuba diving cont 3

by Mansi Gupta

· When it comes to Australia, the country is brimming up with the divers almost the entire year. The Austalia’s Great Barrier Reef and the islands off the Queensland coast the paradigms.

· The wonders of bionetwork beneath water can be explored and cherished at the famous sites like Tasmania, the Heron Island Bommie, The Castle of Southern Queensland; Lomaivitis, Fiji, Suzie Bommie and Papua New Guinea of Pacific

Islands; The Tubbataha Reefs (Sulu Sea, Philippines), The Shark Point (Thailand) in Asia.

· Remember, like flowers have a blooming season, trees have time when they shed their leaves; similarly all these sites have their favorable and adverse timings during the year. It is better to collect complete information about your destination before heading there. The task can be accomplished online as well as through agents, guides etc. part four