Anemone Coral

Bernardpora stutchburyi

• Group: Anemone
• IUCN status: LC

A coral that favours turbid water and often hides beneath rocks and other corals, feeding by day. On Hong Kong reefs it shelters a small shrimp that hooks onto its surface, one of the partnerships that gather around these colonies.

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

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 764221.