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Diploastrea
Sign in to saveDiploastrea is the only genus of corals in its monotypic family, Diploastreidae, containing the extant Diploastrea heliopora (Lamarck, 1816) and the extinct Diploastrea polygonalis (Martin, 1880).
Species
moon coral
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassAnthozoa
- OrderScleractinia
- FamilyDiploastraeidae
Habitatmarine
Observations1,307
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 40
- With media
- 4
- Family
- Diploastraeidae
- Collections
- NHMUK, USNM
- Recorded in
- Indonesia, Palau, Venezuela, Antigua And Barbuda, Cuba, United States, Mexico, Fiji
Wikidata facts
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- Image
- Helcogramma striata (Neon triplefin) on Diploastrea heliopora (Hard coral).jpg
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Diploastrea is the only genus of corals in its monotypic family, Diploastreidae, containing the extant Diploastrea heliopora (Lamarck, 1816) and the extinct Diploastrea polygonalis (Martin, 1880).
==References==
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Diploastrea” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.