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Dipsastraea albida (Veron, 2000) |
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| Family: | Merulinidae () | |||
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| Environment: | reef-associated; marine; depth range 0 - 30 m | |||
| Distribution: | Western Indian Ocean: Red Sea to Somalia. | |||
| Diagnosis: | Colony: massive, usually small. Corallites: crowded, often circular and monocentric but rarely elongate and polycentric. Septa: thickened over the corallite wall, exsert, with large teeth near the wall. Paliform lobes may form a crown around the small columellae. Often pale brown (Ref. 848). | |||
| Biology: | Known from upper reef slopes (Ref. 848). | |||
| IUCN Red List Status: | (LC); Date assessed: 24 October 2023 Ref. 123251) | |||
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