Pocilloporidae
Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Pocillopora damicornis, commonly cauliflower coral, is an abundant, morphologically variable colonial coral widespread in tropical Indo-Pacific and subtropical oceans.
Pocillopora meandrina Dana, 1846
Pocillopora meandrina Dana, 1846
Pocillopora meandrina is a coral species found in the Indian and Pacific Oceans across multiple reef habitats.
Pocillopora verrucosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
Pocillopora verrucosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
Pocillopora verrucosa is a common reef-building colonial coral found across tropical and subtropical Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Pocillopora grandis Dana, 1846
Pocillopora grandis Dana, 1846
Pocillopora grandis, commonly called antler coral, is a colonial stony coral found across the Indo-West Pacific to Eastern Tropical Pacific.
Pocillopora acuta Lamarck, 1816
Pocillopora acuta Lamarck, 1816
Pocillopora acuta is an ecologically important cauliflower-shaped stony coral distributed from the Central Pacific to the Indian Ocean.
Madracis auretenra Locke, Weil & Coates, 2007
Madracis auretenra Locke, Weil & Coates, 2007
Madracis auretenra is a bright yellow zooxanthellate coral commonly used for ocean acidification impact research.
Seriatopora hystrix Dana, 1846
Seriatopora hystrix Dana, 1846
Seriatopora hystrix is a branching Indo-Pacific zooxanthellate coral with high reproductive success that hosts symbiotic crustaceans.
Stylophora pistillata (Esper, 1792)
Stylophora pistillata (Esper, 1792)
Stylophora pistillata is a reef-building Indo-Pacific coral that hosts a variety of marine organisms.
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