Fungia
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Fungia is a genus of corals in the family Fungiidae. It is monotypic with the single species Fungia fungites, which is found growing on reefs in the Indo-Pacific.
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It sits within the topics Animal taxa named by Carl Linnaeus, Cnidaria genera and Corals described in 1758.
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Species
mushroom coral
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassAnthozoa
- OrderScleractinia
- FamilyFungiidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 972
- With media
- 53
- Family
- Fungiidae
- Collections
- NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Indonesia
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- Fungia
- taxon name
- Fungia
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- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Fungia
- taxon common name
- Mushroom corals
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Fungia is a genus of corals in the family Fungiidae. It is monotypic with the single species Fungia fungites, which is found growing on reefs in the Indo-Pacific.
==Taxonomy== Until 2015, the genus Fungia had more than 30 species, but based on recent studies it has now been reduced to a single species.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fungia” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.