Kajalein Atoll is a veritable paradise of SPS corals, and if you couldn’t tell already, there’s plenty ofAcropora四处走动。但是我们没有忽略中太平洋地区的独特蒙蒂斯，而是花了一段时间才能找到他们。
首先是最著名的蒙蒂托拉we sighted in the Marshall Islands is an unknown species we are provisionally calling Montipora sp. “likatu”, but only because we pored over all the referrences and couldn’t find a suitable species match, and ‘Likatu’ being Marshallese for ‘pretty girl’. This particular蒙蒂托拉物种是我们在Kwajalein环礁看到的属中最明显的物种之一，到目前为止，它不少于我们知道的三种颜色菌株。
蒙蒂托拉“ likatu”成长为一种包裹和下s的菌落形状，并具有独特的乳头覆盖物，将乳头融合成殖民地较老的小土墩。最常见的颜色变体蒙蒂托拉‘likatu’ is the orange-brown strain with bright pink polyps and a white growing edge. Very rarely did these colonies create plates, except in very sheltered areas of the reef but you can always tell it apart by the unique pattern of small papillae and the fuzzy appearance it gives the surface of the coral.
我们只花了一点时间以绿色息肉的形式蒙蒂托拉sp。“ likatu’，但在此变量中真正的本垒打蒙蒂托拉物种是紫色的息肉形式，它也会发展出霓虹橙生长的边缘。我们简直不敢相信紫色的橙色生长余地的光彩蒙蒂托拉sp。“ Likatu”以及这种珊瑚在充满阳光下的亮度 - 我们迫不及待地想获得这种特殊的每种颜色的文化部分蒙蒂托拉, grow them together in an aquarium and enjoy how their appearance adapts and changes under aquarium conditions and lighting.
