Encrusting Porites

Porites rus

• Group: Coral
• IUCN status: LC

A reef building stony coral that encrusts and plates over shallow reef surfaces, encrusting Porites builds slow steady colonies in bright water. In Palau it has shown only low to moderate bleaching when the sea warms.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Hexacorallia › Scleractinia › Poritidae › Porites

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 207231.