Plate Montipora Coral

Expert notes

A hard coral that forms thin, overlapping, foliose plates with a finely bumpy surface and distinctively paler, growing margins. — The thin, overlapping plate-like growth form with pale, polyp-free margins and a finely textured, sandpaper-like surface lacking large, distinct corallites points to the genus Montipora, though species-level identification requires microscopic examination.