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Rhodactis
Sign in to saveRhodactis is the genus of Corallimorpharia which is characterized by large individual polyps that are often reminiscent of a mushroom. Rhodactis are related to stony corals but do not produce a stony skeleton.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassAnthozoa
- OrderCorallimorpharia
- FamilyDiscosomidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 44
- With media
- 13
- Family
- Corallimorphidae
- Collections
- CAS, USNM, UMZC, NHMUK, QM, UF
- Recorded in
- Papua New Guinea, French Polynesia, Panama, Bahamas; West Indies, Maldives, Indonesia, Singapore, Jamaica; [West Indies]
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Rhodactis is the genus of Corallimorpharia which is characterized by large individual polyps that are often reminiscent of a mushroom. Rhodactis are related to stony corals but do not produce a stony skeleton.
==Species== The following species are recognized in the genus Rhodactis: Rhodactis bryoides Haddon & Shackleton, 1893 Rhodactis howesii Saville-Kent, 1893 Rhodactis inchoata Carlgren, 1943 Rhodactis indosinensis Carlgren, 1943 Rhodactis musciformis Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 Rhodactis osculifera (Le Sueur, 1817) Rhodactis rhodostoma (Hemprich & Ehrenberg in Ehrenberg, 1834)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rhodactis” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.