Dendrophylliidae Heteropsammia
Forme libre discoide, 1 espèce* en fonction de l'agencement : soit monocentrique, soit dicentrique. Ovoide, detaille centimétrique, il habite les fonds sableux (-20 à -40m).
* Heteropsammia cochlea
Heteropsammia
Heteropsammia
[colonie/individu]
- Overall colony growth form? : free, discoid
- Relationship between corallites? : not applicable
- Size of individual corallites (monocentric corallites) : medium [3 to 15 mm]
- Width of corallite series (pluricentric corallites) : not applicable
- Shape of individual corallites (monocentric corallites)? : oval
- Wall height above cœnosteum? : not applicable (free-living corals)
- Geomorphological area of the reef : lagoon (back reef) ; pente externe
- Monocentric and/or pluricentric corallites? : monocentrics ; pluricentrics (2 or 3 mouths)