Cladopsammia gracilis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)

Small colonies of tall, cylindrical corallites up to 36mm tall. Calices are cylindrical to
irregularly elliptical in shape and bearing tiny, trinagular teeth on thin outer edges. Color
of living coral is vermillon.

Common in cryptic locations, under rock sor ledges throughout central archipiélago,
recorded from 1 to 22m. Elsewhere common throughout the Indo-west Pacific and off the
Eastern coast of Australia, to 95m.

Astrangia browni (Palmer, 1928)

The corallites project only slightly –less than 1.0mm- above the common coenosteum. The
calices are circular to irregular, with diameters of 3.0-5.1 mm. The fossa (central cavity) is
shallow with a spongy columella. The primary septa bear coarse teeth that project slightly
above the rim of the calice. The columella is well developed. The coenosteum is white; polyps
peach.

Cryptic, beneath rocks. Uncommon. Only two records from Galapagos (5m). Elsewhere,
reported from Mexico. Intertidal.

Oulangia bradleyi (Verrill, 1866)

At EPP only as solitary single–plyped coral, no scatterd colonies as described for

Galapagos in Hickman (1999). Corallites tubular, circular to elliptical, up to 16 mm in
diameter and 8 mm tall. Much larger in size that other rhizangids (Astragia and Culicia).

At EPP, this species had a patchy distribution within the Muricea Zone, specimens were
not abundant, but often clustered in close proximity to each other.

Distribution: galapagos, Ecuador, off Pacific Panama, Mexico. 0-64m

Cladopsammia eguchi (Wells 1982)

Ovoid calices were characteristically flattened, with corallites forming quasi-colonial low
clusters. Columella deep, crinkled and attached to the lowest inner edges of the septa
(Hickman 2008), with intertentacular budding of new corallites. It has been reported
throughout the Pacific from the Gulf of Panama to Japan and Australia. In Ecuador from
the Galapagos, Machalilla and Santa Elena (Rivera & Martínez, 20011). At the EPP it
was common on rocks walls, under ledges and rocks, in the Muricea Zone and deeper.
7-85m

Tubastraea coccinea (Lesson, 1829)

The third dendrophyllid had closely spaced corallites, many rising from common base.
Colonies brightly orange colored up to 12 cm tall. Columellate large and spongy, rather
large space without sclerosepta. Tubastraea coccinea has a circumtropical distribution.
At EPP it is extremely abundant in the Muricea Zone, overhangs and vertical drops,
uncommon in the Balanomorpha and Turf Zones.

Distribution: Galapagos (1,5-54m), Elsewhere: circumtropical; 2-110m (Wells, 1983)

Phyllangia consagensis (Durham & Barnard, 1952)

Corallites of this azooxanthellate coral are cylindrical or irregular in shape, short, rising only 3-
5mm above coenosteum. The largest corallites are 10-11mm in diameter. Color often a brillant
pink.

Common throughout Galapagos (0-59m) in caves and under ledges. Elsewhere: Gulf of
California (18-82m)

Phyllangia dispersa Verrill, 1864

Corallites cylindrical or turbinate, very unegual, varying in height from 10 to 40 and in diameter
from 20 to 30 of an inch. The walls are compact, finely ganulous, covered with low, rounded,
unequal costae. Calices Deep at center giving an open appearance. All the septa have their
sides covered with Sharp granulations. Columella often rudimentary, though occupying a small
área.

Tropical, gulf of california, Galapagos, Caribean sea

shallower than 50 m.