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Cyphastrea
Sign in to saveCyphastrea is a genus of massive reef building stony corals in the family Merulinidae, commonly known as brain coral.
Species
knob coral
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassAnthozoa
- OrderScleractinia
- FamilyMerulinidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 599
- With media
- 5
- Family
- Merulinidae
- Collections
- NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Indonesia
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Cyphastrea is a genus of massive reef building stony corals in the family Merulinidae, commonly known as brain coral.
==Species== The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species: Cyphastrea agassizi (Vaughan, 1907) - Agassiz's brain coral Cyphastrea chalcidicum (Forsskål, 1775) Cyphastrea decadia Moll & Best, 1984 Cyphastrea hexasepta Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2000 Cyphastrea japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932 Cyphastrea kausti Bouwmeester & Benzoni, 2015 Cyphastrea magna Benzoni & Arrigoni, 2017 Cyphastrea microphthalma (Lamarck, 1816) Cyphastrea ocellina (Dana, 1846) - ocellated brain coral Cyphastrea salae Baird, Hoogenboom & Huang, 2017 Cyphastrea serailia (Forsskål, 1775) Cyphastrea zhongjianensis Zou, 1980
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cyphastrea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.