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These corals have small bumps, known as thecal papillae, that are fused together around the corallite[1]. They also have a coenosteum papillae that is present[1].

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These corals can be hermaphroditic or gonochoric[2]. Their zygote produces planktonic planula larvae[3]. Metamorphosis takes place early before larval settlement occurs on the opposite side of the mouth[3].

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  1. Veron J. E. N. (1993). In Biogeographic database of hermatypic coral species of the central Indo-Pacific, genera of the world story, Australian Institute of Marine Science, 57–58.
  2. Khalesi, M. K. (2015). Corals. Springer Handbook of Marine Biotechnology, 179–217.
  3. Bernard, H. M. (1897). XI.—Notes, morphological and systematic, on the Madreporarian Subfamily Montiporinæ (Montipora and Anacropora), with an account of the Phylogeny of the Madreporidæz, Macmillan and Co, 20, 117–135.
  1. ^ a b Veron J. E. N. (1993). In Biogeographic database of hermatypic coral species of the central Indo-Pacific, genera of the world story, Australian Institute of Marine Science, 57-58.
  2. ^ Khalesi, M. K. (2015). Corals. Springer Handbook of Marine Biotechnology, 179–217.
  3. ^ a b Bernard, H. M. (1897). XI.—Notes, morphological and systematic, on the Madreporarian Subfamily Montiporinæ (Montipora and Anacropora), with an account of the Phylogeny of the Madreporidæz, Macmillan and Co, 20, 117–135.