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    Posted: June 05 2005 at 10:41pm
I was looking on frags.org and they have things like montipora porites and acropora porites listed; what are porites anyway?
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Montipora, Acropora and Porites are all separate Genus names.  Although Veron's Corals of the World does list a Montipora porites, but lists it as a new and rare species.

Montipora:

 

Porites:

Notice how similar the two can look?
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