Genus Montastrea

de Blainville, 1830

Montastrea valenciennesi (3)

Type species: Montastrea guettardi (Defrance, 1826)

Total number of species estimated: 40

Characteristics: Forming massive, encrusting or subfoliaceous, plocoid colonies. Corallite walls solid. Columella parietal, spongy, usually well developed. Septal margins regularly dentate.

Range: Gulf of Guinea, Brazil, Indo-Pacific.

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