Saltwater
Finger coral
Porites cylindrica
Poritidae
Facts
Care
- Type
- Small-polyp stony coral (SPS)
- Light
- High
- Flow
- Strong
- Placement
- Middle of the rock, High on the rock
- Difficulty
- Medium
Water values
Range
Seen here
Seen in the wild in American Samoa, Australia, British Indian Ocean Territory, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Egypt, Fiji, French Southern Territories, Guam, and 18 more countries.
More about the species
Description
Porites cylindrica, commonly known as Hump coral, is a stony coral belonging to the subclass Hexacorallia in the class Anthozoa. Hexacorallia differ from other subclasses in that they have six or fewer axes of symmetry. Members of this class possess colonial polyps which can be reef-building, secreting a calcium carbonate skeleton. They are dominant in both inshore reefs and midshelf reefs.
Other names
In other languages
- Stony coral
