Husbandry
Nemenzophyllia turbida
Hodgson and Ross, 1981
Description: Colonies may be several metres across and are composed of interconnecting meandering thin walled flabello-meandroid valleys. Valleys are 8-10 millimetres wide and may be up to 200 millimetres high. Usually living parts of colonies are separated by dead basal parts. Valley walls and septa are both thin and fragile. Septa are in three orders, those of the first order are up to 5 millimetres exsert and meet at the valley centre where they may curve and form a columella-like median wall. Costae are exsert. Polyps have fleshy mantles, which form a continuous cover of compact discs.
Color: Grey, sometimes with pale margins to mantles.
Similar Species: Plerogyra discus. Colonies may resemble the mussid Blastomussa wellsi, which also has fleshy mantles. See also the faviid Platygyra carnosus.
Hodgson and Ross, 1981
Description: Colonies may be several metres across and are composed of interconnecting meandering thin walled flabello-meandroid valleys. Valleys are 8-10 millimetres wide and may be up to 200 millimetres high. Usually living parts of colonies are separated by dead basal parts. Valley walls and septa are both thin and fragile. Septa are in three orders, those of the first order are up to 5 millimetres exsert and meet at the valley centre where they may curve and form a columella-like median wall. Costae are exsert. Polyps have fleshy mantles, which form a continuous cover of compact discs.
Color: Grey, sometimes with pale margins to mantles.
Similar Species: Plerogyra discus. Colonies may resemble the mussid Blastomussa wellsi, which also has fleshy mantles. See also the faviid Platygyra carnosus.
