Coral spawning is a fundamental process in the preservation of coral reef systems. However, reproductive information is still rare for many coral species and across a number of locations. No reproductive information is yet available from the western coast of the central and southern Red Sea. We document here the daytime spawning of Pocillopora verrucosa across the two coasts of the central Red Sea, in Saudi Arabia on the eastern side and in Sudan on the western side. In both sites, P. verrucosa released its gametes in the morning, 1–2 d before the new moon, within a 25‐day window between mid‐May and mid‐June, matching other known observations from the east coast of the central Red Sea. Spawning followed a period of rapidly changing sea surface temperature. We here propose that given the reproductive synchrony of P. verrucosa across both coasts, the timing of coral spawning from other species is likely to be similar as well.

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遍及中部红海东部和西部沿海地区的拟南芥（Pocillopora verrucosa）的广播产生

珊瑚产卵是保护珊瑚礁系统的基本过程。但是，生殖信息对于许多珊瑚物种和许多地方仍然很少。红海中部和南部的西海岸尚无生殖信息。我们在此记录了红皮中波西罗白天在东部红海的两个海岸，东部的沙特阿拉伯和西部的苏丹的产卵情况。在两个站点中，疣状假单胞菌在5月中旬至6月中旬之间的25天之内，在新月之前的1-2天早晨，释放了配子，这与红海中部东海岸的其他已知观测结果相符。产卵期是在海面温度迅速变化的一段时间之后。我们在此提出，鉴于两个海岸的疣疣假单胞菌的繁殖同步性，其他物种产卵的时间也可能相似。