Plate and Mushroom Corals
13 entries in the Plate and Mushroom Corals compendium.
FungiidaeMushroom corals are solitary or colonial cnidarians capable of locomotion.Ctenactis echinataFree-living solitary disc coral of the Indo-Pacific.CycloserisSolitary disc corals of the Indo-Pacific, free-living even as juveniles.Cycloseris curvataA solitary disc coral of the Indo-Pacific.Cycloseris cyclolitesA solitary disc coral that can move and float on sediment.Cycloseris distortaA free-living disc coral that can inflate and fragment itself.Danafungia scruposaFirst coral observed eating jellyfish in the wild.FungiaMonotypic coral genus reduced from over 30 species.HalomitraSolitary, free-living mushroom corals adapted to unstable reef environments.HerpolithaA monotypic genus of free-living mushroom corals in the Indo-Pacific.Herpolitha limaxA free-living mushroom coral with a single axial furrow.Lithophyllon repandaA mobile mushroom coral found across the Indo-Pacific.LobactisA solitary, free-living mushroom coral of the Indo-Pacific.
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