Porites (Napopora) violetae
Nemenzo, 1971
Corallum a very crowded custer of stems and branches standing on creeping base. Stems short, thick, without definite shape, extremely coalescent so only those at periphery produce partly free branches.
Terminal branchlets stout with rounded tips. Corallites 1mm across or little over, separated by distinct intercalicinal areas raised into collines with rounded summits. Wall not obvious. Septa rugged because of abundance of spinules on their surface and prominence of granules on their edges; thick so loculi slit-like. Pali conspicuous. Columella mostly a low tubercle, absent in some corallites. Intercalicinal area swell into collines (ridges)enclosing one or occasionally a row of coralllites.
Source:
Nemenzo, F. (1971). Systematic studies on Philippine shallow-water scleractinians: VII. Additional forms. Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines. 23: 141-209.
Taxonomic status:
Unaccepted
Accepted name:
Porites deformis Nemenzo, 1955
Source:
WoRMS Editorial Board. (2024). World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. Accessed 2024-05-02. doi:10.14284/170
Material:
Fig. 264: 1345: Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro
Type specimen location:
Institute of Biology, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City
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