{"id":1904,"date":"2026-01-19T17:15:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/?p=1904"},"modified":"2026-01-19T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:15:17","slug":"honeycomb-coral-diploastrea-heliopora-phu-quoc-coral-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/en\/honeycomb-coral-diploastrea-heliopora-phu-quoc-coral-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"Honeycomb Coral (Diploastrea Heliopora) \u2013 Phu Quoc Coral Observation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A massive dome-shaped (helmet-shaped) Honeycomb coral (Diploastrea Heliopora) discovered at the depth of 7 m at Phu Quoc Half-moon Reef, this is the largest honeycomb coral ever found in Phu Quoc.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Status: Diploastrea Heliopora is a kind of\u00a0<\/strong>near threatened coral (NT) (IUCN Red List)<\/p>\n

Coral Species: Diploastrea Heliopora or Honeycomb Coral<\/strong><\/p>\n

Coral size:<\/strong>\u00a0Height: 3m \u2013 Diameter: 6m<\/p>\n

Coral Location:<\/strong>\u00a0Half-moon Reef<\/a>, Phu Quoc Island<\/p>\n

The depth of coral:<\/strong>\u00a0We found the coral at the depth of 7m at Half-moon Reef, Phu Quoc Island<\/p>\n

Coral Info:<\/strong>\u00a0Honeycomb coral or\u00a0Diploastrea Heliopora\u00a0<\/strong>is a species of hard coral in the family Diploastreidae. It is the only extant species in its genus. This species can form massive dome-shaped colonies of great size.<\/p>\n

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See full video recorded by our team on 8 October, 2022<\/p>\n

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A massive dome-shaped (helmet-shaped) Honeycomb coral (Diploastrea Heliopora) discovered at the depth of 7 m at Phu Quoc Half-moon Reef, this is the largest honeycomb coral ever found in Phu Quoc. Status: Diploastrea Heliopora is a kind of\u00a0near threatened coral (NT) (IUCN Red List) Coral Species: Diploastrea Heliopora or Honeycomb Coral Coral size:\u00a0Height: 3m \u2013…[Read More]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":1905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1906,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1904\/revisions\/1906"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dtabeam.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}