2017年7月23日 · Below are 11 common species of hard coral that you can find while scuba diving in the Caribbean, as well as some tips on how to identify them. The Caribbean staghorn coral (Acropora cervicornis) is an important reef-building species because the long, pointed branches intersect as they grow upward towards the sun.

2017年4月25日 · I want to inspire scuba divers to explore the reef with new eyes by taking a closer look at corals. I have created this helpful guide to identifying Caribbean corals so you can start to identify corals today.

2017年12月26日 · In this quick guide, we give you a few tip to identify each genus or type of coral. If you want to learn more about each species there is a link describing each in more detail. Star coral may not be bright and colorful, but it is an important reef-building species that dominates Caribbean reefs.

Welcome To Florent's Tropical Reef Life Identification Guides! Select a Guide for a Geographic Area: The Caribbean, the Bahamas and Florida 705 Species

White terminal corallites give the edges of outer branches a white outline. Branch Diameter: 2-10in. Smooth contoured plates to hemispherical domes. Domes are the most common. Often encrust and overgrow colonies, taking on their shape. Surface texture smooth with numerous pin-hole sized pores.

Caribbean corals is a great place to start learning coral identification because there is only a few coral species you need to learn compared to a place like the Indo-Pacific with hundreds of hard coral species. At the top of this guide I have included some quick identification guides which separate the corals based on their growth form.

Corals are now divided in four main groups (Montastraea, Agaricidae, Brain-looking corals and the Rest). All identifications are based on commonly used species names here on Curacao. This overview is a work in progress (and I welcome suggestions on how to shape this picture collection into a more user-friendly format), but I thought it would be ...

Identification of coral especies in the field could be difficult even for marine biologists. Even today, there is confusion with the identity of many of the common shallow water coral species of the wider Caribbean. Of the 27 zooxanthellae coral genera recognized, 21 (77 %) present some taxonomic problem with the component species. New approaches

Helps you identify every species of stony coral, gorgonian, fire coral, black coral and even marine plants inhabiting the tropical western Atlantic. The Reef Coral Identification now includes 656 photographs of 188 species in their natural habitat.

2022年3月11日 · A comprehensive photographic guide for the visual identification of corals and marine plants that inhabit the Florida, Caribbean and Bahamas waters. It is designed to help recreational divers, as well as scientists, distinguish the many species of corals and algae encountered while exploring the reefs.