Brain and Merulinid Corals
39 entries in the Brain and Merulinid Corals compendium.
MerulinidaeColonial reef-building corals with fused skeletons and no paliform lobes.Coelastrea asperaA common Indo-Pacific stony coral with a ten-year bleaching memory.DipsastraeaA genus of zooxanthellate stony corals from the Indo-Pacific.Dipsastraea pallidaA widespread colonial stony coral of the Indo-Pacific.FavitesA genus of stony corals with cerioid and plocoid corallites.Favites abditaA near-threatened stony coral from the Indo-Pacific region.Favites complanataA near-threatened stony coral of the Indo-Pacific region.Favites pentagonaA common Indo-Pacific stony coral of least concern.Favites valenciennesiA wide-ranging but uncommon stony coral assessed as near-threatened.Goniastrea favulusUncommon stony coral with near threatened conservation status.Goniastrea retiformisA common, zooxanthellate coral of Indo-Pacific shallow reefs.Hydnophora rigidaHorn coral, first described by Dana in 1846, fluoresces green and cyano-red.Open brain coralA brightly colored free-living coral in the family Merulinidae.OrbicellaA genus of major reef-building stony corals in the Caribbean.Orbicella annularisMost studied and abundant reef-building coral in the Caribbean.Orbicella faveolataA slow-growing Caribbean coral endangered by disease and bleaching.Orbicella franksiA near-threatened colonial stony coral of the Caribbean.Oulophyllia crispaA near-threatened stony coral of the Indo-Pacific.Paragoniastrea australensisA common, variable stony coral of Indo-Pacific shallow waters.PhysophylliaMonotypic reef-building coral of the Indo-Pacific.Platygyra contortaA colonial stony coral with thin walls and curved valleys.Platygyra daedaleaA common Indo-Pacific stony coral of least concern.Platygyra lamellinaA near-threatened brain coral of Indo-Pacific reefs.MussidaeAtlantic stony corals including brain corals, revised in 2012.ColpophylliaMonotypic genus of boulder brain coral, a Caribbean reef-builder.DiploriaMonotypic genus of massive reef-building stony corals.FaviaA genus of reef-building stony corals with stinger tentacles.Favia fragumColonial stony coral found across the tropical Atlantic.Manicina areolataA colonial stony coral with two growth forms.MussismiliaA genus of Atlantic stony corals with twisted septal teeth.Pseudodiploria clivosaA massive stony coral of the West Atlantic and Caribbean.Pseudodiploria strigosaA slow-growing, long-lived brain coral of the West Atlantic and Caribbean.Isophyllia sinuosaA stony coral with aggressive extracoelentric feeding and symbiotic algae.Mussa (coral)Monotypic stony coral genus with aggressive, large polyps.Mussa angulosaMonotypic stony coral with aggressive cnidocytes and large fleshy polyps.MycetophylliaA genus of reef-building stony corals native to the Caribbean.ScolymiaSolitary stony corals with three extant Atlantic species.Scolymia cubensisA solitary coral that fuses with genetically different kin.Scolymia laceraA solitary, aggressive stony coral of the Caribbean and nearby waters.
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