🦋 Family

Merulinidae

11 species · Animals

Animalia › Cnidaria › Anthozoa › Scleractinia › Merulinidae

Hydnophora exesa, commonly called Horn or Spine coral, is a coral in genus Hydnophora described by Pallas in 1766.

Hydnophora rigida, or horn coral, is a common bushy branching coral found on shallow Indo-Pacific reefs that often spawns multiple times per year.

Trachyphyllia geoffroyi, the open brain coral, is a small free-living coral found across the Indo-Pacific at depths up to 40 meters.

Boulder star coral (Orbicella annularis) is an abundant, well-studied Caribbean reef-building coral now recognized as a species complex.

Orbicella faveolata is a large reef-building coral found in Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico shallow waters.

Oulophyllia crispa is a zooxanthellate stony coral native to the tropical central and western Indo-Pacific region.

Goniastrea stelligera (knob coral) is a near-threatened stony coral found in shallow Indo-Pacific and East African coastal waters.

Platygyra daedalea is a common, aggressive Indo-Pacific stony coral that hosts symbiotic zooxanthellae.

Favites pentagona is an aggressive simultaneous hermaphrodite zooxanthellate stony coral native to shallow Indo-Pacific seas.

Paragoniastrea australensis is a variable-coloured stony coral widespread in shallow clear Indo-West Pacific waters.

Coelastrea aspera is a Indo-Pacific hermaphroditic zooxanthelate coral that demonstrates long-term memory of past bleaching stress.

Related Families

Acroporidae 20 species Dendrophylliidae 11 species Agariciidae 9 species Faviidae 8 species Pocilloporidae 8 species Fungiidae 5 species Poritidae 5 species Euphylliidae 4 species

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