“…Conditions such as the wide ranges of annual temperature fluctuations (18 to 32 °C), low pH (7.72 to 8.03) (Cupul-Cortés et al, 2018), high sedimentation rates (Glynn et al, 2017), seasonal upwellings (Portela et al, 2016) and internal waves that results in abnormal daily sea temperature fluctuations (Plata & Filonov, 2007), promotes non-optimal conditions that affect physiological processes with high energy demand, such as reproduction (Glynn, 2000;Glynn & D' Croz, 1990;Santiago-Valentín et al, 2018;Spalding et al, 2001). However, gamete development has recently been documented in all reef-building scleractinian corals examined in the region (Carpizo-Ituarte et al, 2011;Chávez-Romo & Reyes-Bonilla, 2007;Glynn et al, 1991;Glynn et al, 1994;Glynn et al, 1996;Glynn et al, 2017;López-Pérez et al, 2007;Medina-Rosas et al, 2005;Rodríguez-Troncoso et al, 2011;Santiago-Valentín et al, 2015), and even the developmental stages and morphology of the larvae within adult colonies have been described (Glynn et al, 2017;Santiago-Valentín et al, 2019).…”