Coral Identification: Coral 1
This will be a page to document Eric's coral ID.
Decription of Coral 1 is a cross between caespitose, caespito-corymbose, and digitate. I have a feeling the digitate nature might become less if the colony were larger.
This coral has two cycles of septa, no clear directive septa, and the secondary series is highly irregular and imperfect. In many axials, I only see one or two secondary septa, and they do not show any real consistency as to how far towards the center they go. The primary septa extend about 50-60% of the radius. The outer corallite diameter is about 1.8-2.0mm and the inner diameter appears to be about 0.5-0.75mm, although this is at best an estimate using a ruler.
Here is what it looks like:
and with labels:
Better pic:
Some other examples of corals and their axials:
Juvenile Table:
Closeup of axial:
Hispidose Coral:
and it's axial corrallite:
Arborescent Hispidose:
2 Different Axial Corrallite:
Caespito-?Corymbose:
Axial close-up:
Notice how many of these do not have two cycles of primary septa
I seem to have two primary types of radials:
One set is mostly immersed with some sub-immersed towards the branch ends, with round openings ( I'll measure and assess septa under the scope later)
The other set is pretty much everything but the kitchen sink....I'll point this out in the figures attached.
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