Pavona duerdeni

Appearance

Pavona duerdeni is usually a uniform grey color, having yellow and brown coloration on the surface of the coral. The coral receives its coloration from the aggregation of the yellow-brown symbiotic zooxanthellae on its hard, lobe-shaped structure. Pavona duerdeni, the porkchop coral, is a coral that forms clusters of cream-colored lobes or discs.

Range and habitat

The coral is considered to be uncommon due to its low confirmed abundance, yet has been found in Hawaii, the Indo-Pacific, and the Tropical Eastern Pacific. Large aggregations of Pavona duerdeni have been confirmed in: the Gulf of Panama. The Carrizales, Colima coral reef, located the Western Mexican coast; in Thailand in Koh Tao reef; in the Johnston Atoll reef; in the Hawaiian Archipelago and the Emperor seamount chain. The habitat for Pavona duerdeni consists of shallow reef environments, forming large colonies on horizontal shallow substrates.

Pins are Wikidata “endemic to” fields. Orange dots, when present, are GBIF occurrence tiles — survey bias included.

Breeding

As part of the Anthozoa class, Pavona duerdeni, releases spawning-eggs and sperm into the water columns simultaneously.

In crisis

CITES lists this taxon on Appendix II. Confirm the current appendix on the CITES checklist.

Thin-plated lettuce corals smother under sediment and heat-bleach with the rest of the shallow reef.

Pavona duerdeni is Endangered on this catalog because that is the IUCN category stored on Wikidata. Confirm the official criteria and any later count on iucnredlist.org.

Sources

Written for this catalog from the English Wikipedia article on Pavona duerdeni, Wikidata item Q3656059. Family and order context is original field-guide writing about the group, not a copied assessment of this one species. Wikipedia text is CC BY-SA. Not an IUCN assessment. Counts, when quoted, can change — confirm them on the recovery programme and on iucnredlist.org.