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Mustard Hill Coral Forming rounded heads and domes in deeper waters, this coral occurs only in the encrusting form in shallow high water energy environments. The bright yellow or yellow-green surface appears lumpy and porous due to the closely set corallites. Fall,Geotagged,Mustard Hill Coral,Porites astreoides,Trunk Bay,U.S. Virgin Islands Click/tap to enlarge Species introCountry intro

Mustard Hill Coral

Forming rounded heads and domes in deeper waters, this coral occurs only in the encrusting form in shallow high water energy environments. The bright yellow or yellow-green surface appears lumpy and porous due to the closely set corallites.

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The Mustard Hill Coral

"Porites astreoides" is a colonial species of stony coral in the family Poritidae. Its common name is the mustard hill coral or the yellow porites. It is a common species growing in shallow water on reefs in the western Atlantic and Caribbean Sea.

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Uploaded Oct 23, 2014. Captured Oct 6, 2014 11:43 in Virgin Islands National Park, North Shore Road, St. John 00830, USVI.
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  • COOLPIX S31
  • f/3.3
  • 10/8000s
  • ISO80
  • 4.1mm
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