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Very special thanks for the first photo of Pachyseris inattesa to Dr. Francesca Benzoni, Italy.
This new coral was found along the Saudi Arabian coast in the northern and central Red Sea in 2014.
The colony size is around 15 cm in diameter, the largest colony observed in the field was 25 cm across.
Color: light brown with the top of the collines and the margins of the colony paler, the coloration ranges from a grayish beige to brown with some areas having a greener tinge.
Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Agariciidae (Family) > Pachyseris (Genus) > Pachyseris inattesa (Species)