Pink Porites
Donald Potts
potts at biology.ucsc.edu
Fri Apr 5 19:43:58 EST 1996
I've seen similar pink bands from time to time in massive Porites from
Australia and Papua New Guinea. Again, only in some corals. While I have
assumed they represent endolithic algae or micro-organisms, I've never
looked closely at the cause. Not all Porites in one area have these pink
bands ; and I suspect they may reflect host-specificity of the
microorganisms among Porites species, as well as habitat-specificity
Don Potts
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