Quiz

Question 2

Coelastrea has green mouth, green paliform lobes, and brown walls.

true or false?

Answer 2

true

Question 3

Which coral has daisy-like corallites that are much smaller than in Pavona?

A) Pavona
B) Psammocora
C) Cyphastrea
D) Echinopora

Answer 3

B) Psammocora

Question 4

What visual clue helps identify Montipora instead of Cyphastrea?

A) Beaded texture
B) Septa around mouth
C) No septa around mouth and closer corallites
D) Castle-like corallites

Answer 4

C) No septa around mouth and closer corallites

• left: Montipora
• right: Cyphastrea

Question 5

How many tentacles does Goniopora have compared to Alveopora?

Answer 5

Goniopora has 24 tentacles; Alveopora has 12.

• picture: Goniopora

Question 6

Which coral has see-through tentacles around the skeleton?

A) Galaxea
B) Goniastrea
C) Coelastrea
D) Echinophyllia

Answer 6

A) Galaxea

Question 7

Echinophyllia vs. Acanthastrea

Which corallites are more raised and spaced out?

Answer 7

• Echinophyllia
• both can look moldy

Question 8

Which coral is described as “cookies are DIPped in tea”?

A) Favites
B) Dipsastrea
C) Acanthastrea
D) Merulina

Answer 8

B) Dipsastrea

Question 9

What coral is “zipper-like” edges of the plate and can have bumps in the middle?

Answer 9

Merulina

Question 10

Acropora or Pocillopora?

Answer 10

Pocillopora

• pepper-like corallites
• with very rounded tips

Question 11

How can you tell Favites and Goniastrea apart?

What is what?

Answer 11

• Favites has irregular septa and corallites and can have paliform lobes
• Goniastrea has a more regular structure with paliform lobes surrounding the mouth.
• Goniastrea does not look empty inside, unlike Favites sometimes.
  *Goniastrea has paliform lobes and the walls are not aligned

Question 12

What is on the left side of the transect? What is on the right side?

Answer 12

• left: Coelastrea
• right: Goniastrea
• Goniastrea has smaller corallites than Coelastrea.
• Goniastrea has paliform lobes and appears “filled in”