{"id":5739,"date":"2026-02-10T23:59:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T23:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/?page_id=5739"},"modified":"2026-02-11T00:32:54","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T00:32:54","slug":"2015-specimens","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/versicolor.ca\/barbados\/bb-observations\/acroporoids-on-vauxhall-reef\/a-prolifera\/2015-specimens\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 specimens"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Map prepared from Google Earth showing the reef zones (Lewis 1960) and occurrence of the 3 Acropora species on Vauxhall Reef.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Occurrences are based based on observations 2015-2024; most are recorded on iNaturalist.
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Photos of A prolifera specimens at Vauxhall Reef on Mar 14, 2015.<\/strong>“Specimen 1” photos are within the “Mother Colony”, location shown at right. This large mass of A. palmata likely developed by fusion and growth of individual colonies.<\/p>\n

Specimens 2 to 15, are discrete colonies\u00a0 located within “The FAN” shown at right, proceeding from the Mother Colony towards the shore.<\/p>\n

More info about these colonies under the page All 3 Acroporoids occurred on Vauxhall Reef 2015 (& earlier) to 2023<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Specimen 1,<\/strong> scale is 10.5 cm<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Specimen 2<\/strong>,\u00a0scale is 10.5 cm<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Specimen 4<\/strong>,\u00a0scale is 10.5 cm<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Specimen 6<\/strong>,\u00a0scale is 10.5 cm<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Specimen 8<\/strong>,\u00a0scale is 10.5 cm<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Specimen 10<\/strong>,\u00a0scale is 10.5 cm<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Specimen 12<\/strong>,\u00a0scale is 10.5 cm<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Specimen 14<\/strong>,\u00a0scale is 10.5 cm<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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Specimen 15<\/strong>,\u00a0scale is 15.o cm<\/p><\/div><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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