Features: colonies are compact shrubs, but may be thicker plates. The branches are short and are spessp these sub-branches. The axial corallites are large and protruding dome, bounded by thick walls. Can get long and tubular. The radial corallites are small and inconspicuous. All corals are rounded and smooth. The coenosteum is smooth.
Color: dolito is solid blue or cream.
Similar species: A. loripes , which has more prominent radial corallites and does not have a uniform color. (See also A. rosaria and A. squarrosa).
Habitat: upper zone of the reef.
Wild: common.
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