Cyphastrea
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Scleractinia |
| Family: | Merulinidae |
| Genus: | Cyphastrea Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848 |
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Cyphastrea is a genus of massive reef building stony corals in the family Merulinidae, commonly known as brain coral.
Species[]
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species:[1]
- (Vaughan, 1907) - Agassiz's brain coral[2]
- (Forsskål, 1775)
- Moll & Best, 1984
- Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2000
- Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932
- Bouwmeester & Benzoni, 2015
- Benzoni & Arrigoni, 2017
- (Lamarck, 1816)
- (Dana, 1846) - ocellated brain coral[2]
- Baird, Hoogenboom & Huang, 2017
- (Forsskål, 1775)
- Zou, 1980
References[]
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Cyphastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 16 April 2019.
- ^ a b Fenner, Douglas (2005). Corals of Hawai'i : field guide to the hard, black, and soft corals of Hawai'i and the northwest Hawaiian Islands, including Midway. Honolulu, Hawai'i: Mutual Pub. ISBN 1-56647-673-9.
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Categories:
- Merulinidae
- Taxa named by Henri Milne-Edwards
- Taxa named by Jules Haime
- Scleractinia genera
- Scleractinia stubs