🦋 Family

Caryophylliidae

3 species · Animals

Animalia › Cnidaria › Anthozoa › Scleractinia › Caryophylliidae

Caryophyllia smithii is a solitary stony coral with two depth-related forms found in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean.

Polycyathus muellerae is a large-polyped non-zooxanthellate colonial coral native to European Atlantic coasts and the Mediterranean.

Phyllangia americana is a reef coral species in the family Caryophylliidae, first described in 1849 by Milne-Edwards & Haime.

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Acroporidae 20 species Dendrophylliidae 11 species Merulinidae 11 species Agariciidae 9 species Faviidae 8 species Pocilloporidae 8 species Fungiidae 5 species Poritidae 5 species

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