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Table 2 Biodiversity of scleractinian corals in the intertidal rock pools of KwaZulu-Natal, at four sites

From: Large fluctuations but constant mean temperatures allow corals to persist in intertidal rock pools on the east coast of South Africa

Family

Genus

Species

Sodwana Bay

Treasure Beach

Isipingo

Munster

Pocilloporidae

Pocillopora

verrucosa

*

*

*

*

  

damicornis

*

*

*

 
 

Stylophora

pistillata

 

*

 

*

Acroporidae

Acropora

(a)

*

*

*

 
  

(b)

 

*

*

 

Siderastreidae

Anomastrea

irregularis

*

*

*

*

Agariciidae

Pavona

venosa

*

*

*

 

Mussidae

Acanthastrea

echinata

*

*

*

*

 

Blastomussa

merleti

  

*

 
 

Unidentified

 

*

*

  

Merulinidae

Hydnophora

exesa

*

*

*

 
 

Favia

malthaii/pallida

  

*

 
  

speciosa

*

  

*

 

Favites

pentagona

*

*

*

*

 

Goniastrea

(d)

*

   

Poritidae

Porites

(e)

*

*

*

 
  1. Species is unknown for those marked (a–e)
  2. * Represents at least one observation of that group