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title: "Yellow Finger Coral"
description: "Porites cylindrica — Otros animales. Porites cylindrica, commonly known as Hump coral, is a stony coral belonging to the subclass Hexacorallia in the class Anthozoa."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/yellow-finger-coral
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Yellow Finger Coral

> Porites cylindrica — Otros animales. Porites cylindrica, commonly known as Hump coral, is a stony coral belonging to the subclass Hexacorallia in the class Anthozoa.

- Scientific name: *Porites cylindrica*
- Category: `other` (Otros animales)
- Habitats: `sea` (Mar y costa)
- iNaturalist observations: 817
- Wikidata: [Q3949534](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3949534)
- iNaturalist taxon: [110096](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/110096)

## Names

- en: Yellow Finger Coral
- fr: Corail poreux digitiforme

## Countries with the most observations

ID (122), PH (56), GU (43), FJ (40), AU (39), MY (21), MV (20), NC (14), FM (13), MG (10), PW (9), KE (6)

## Summary

Porites cylindrica, commonly known as Hump coral, is a stony coral belonging to the subclass Hexacorallia in the class Anthozoa. Hexacorallia differ from other subclasses in that they have six or fewer axes of symmetry. Members of this class possess colonial polyps which can be reef-building, secreting a calcium carbonate skeleton. They are dominant in both inshore reefs and midshelf reefs.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porites_cylindrica

## Photo

![Yellow Finger Coral](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/yellow-finger-coral/medium.jpg)

Photo: Jean-Paul Boerekamps · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/141135156

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/yellow-finger-coral?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).