Dipsastraea sp. indet.

Fassbender, Nico, Stefanoudis, Paris V, Filander, Zoleka Nontlantla, Gendron, Gilberte, Mah, Christopher L, Mattio, Lydiane, Mortimer, Jeanne A, Moura, Carlos J, Samaai, Toufiek, Samimi-Namin, Kaveh, Wagner, Daniel, Walton, Rowana & Woodall, Lucy C, 2021, Reef benthos of Seychelles - A field guide, Biodiversity Data Journal 9, pp. 65970-65970 : 65970

Dipsastraea sp. indet.

Materials

Type status: Other material. Taxon: scientificName: Dipsastraea; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; order: Scleractinia; family: Merulinidae; genus: Dipsastraea; scientificNameAuthorship: Blainvile, 1830; Location: waterBody: Indian Ocean; country: Seychelles; locality: Aldabra N 1, Aldabra W 1, Alphonse N 1, Astove W 1, D'Arros N 1, Desroches S 1, Poivre E 1 ; minimumDepthInMeters: 8.8 m; maximumDepthInMeters: 39.4 m; locationRemarks: First Descent : Seychelles Expedition ; Identification : identifiedBy: Gilberte Gendron , Nico Fassbender , Paris Stefanoudis , Rowana Walton ; dateIdentified: 2019, 2020; identificationRemarks: identified only from imagery; Event : samplingProtocol: Submersible OR Remotely Operated Vehicle OR SCUBA; Record Level: basisOfRecord: Human observation

Notes

Massive, sub-massive or encrusting colonies. Maximum recorded size: 50 cm across. Corallites are highly plocoid to almost-cerioid, roughly equal in size and do not share walls. Corallite size can range from 3.0 to 25.0 mm. Colouration shades of beige, brown or green. Sometimes confused with Montastrea whose corallites are squeezed into more irregular shapes. Favites colonies look similar, but their corallites share walls (Fig. 91).