Three reefs were surveyed in the Rock Island region known locally as “Ngeruktabel” after one of the larger islands. Seriatopora spp. were not present around this island.
High-resolution habitat maps will be available on the Living Oceans Foundation’s world reef map website in late 2019.
PaNg04 (2015-1-11) lagoonal fringing reef
PaNg04 Pocillopora acuta samples (n=3)
PaNg05 (2015-1-11): Two pocilloporid corals (both P. acuta; PaPd11-12) were sampled from this lagoonal patch reef.
PaNg05 sampled P. acuta colonies (n=2)
PaNg06 (2015-1-11) lagoonal fringing reef
PaNg06 sampled pocilloporids (n=2; PaPd13-14)
