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Sandalolitha Boucheti
''Sandalolitha'' is a genus of cnidarians belonging to the family Fungiidae. The species of this genus are found in Indian Ocean, Malesia and Pacific Ocean. Species: *''Sandalolitha boucheti'' *''Sandalolitha dentata'' *''Sandalolitha robusta ''Sandalolitha robusta'' is a plate or mushroom coral in the family Fungiidae. This coral is found in the Indo-Pacific region.Cnidarians ...
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Sandalolitha Dentata
''Sandalolitha'' is a genus of cnidarians belonging to the family Fungiidae. The species of this genus are found in Indian Ocean, Malesia and Pacific Ocean. Species: *''Sandalolitha boucheti'' *''Sandalolitha dentata'' *''Sandalolitha robusta ''Sandalolitha robusta'' is a plate or mushroom coral in the family Fungiidae. This coral is found in the Indo-Pacific region.Cnidarians ...
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Cnidarians
Cnidaria () is a phylum under kingdom Animalia containing over 11,000 species of aquatic animals found both in freshwater and marine environments, predominantly the latter. Their distinguishing feature is cnidocytes, specialized cells that they use mainly for capturing prey. Their bodies consist of mesoglea, a non-living jelly-like substance, sandwiched between two layers of epithelium that are mostly one cell thick. Cnidarians mostly have two basic body forms: swimming medusae and sessile polyps, both of which are radially symmetrical with mouths surrounded by tentacles that bear cnidocytes. Both forms have a single orifice and body cavity that are used for digestion and respiration. Many cnidarian species produce colonies that are single organisms composed of medusa-like or polyp-like zooids, or both (hence they are trimorphic). Cnidarians' activities are coordinated by a decentralized nerve net and simple receptors. Several free-swimming species of Cubozoa and Scyphozo ...
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Fungiidae
The Fungiidae () are a family of Cnidaria, commonly known as mushroom corals or plate corals. The family contains thirteen extant genera. They range from solitary corals to colonial species. Some genera such as ''Cycloseris'' and ''Fungia'' are solitary organisms, '' Polyphyllia'' consists of a single organism with multiple mouths, and ''Ctenactis'' and '' Herpolitha'' might be considered as solitary organisms with multiple mouths or a colony of individuals, each with its separate mouth. Characteristics Species are generally solitary marine animals capable of benthic locomotion. These corals often appear to be bleached or dead. In most genera, a single polyp emerges from the center of the skeleton to feed at night. Most species remain fully detached from the substrate in adulthood. Some are immobile as well as colonial. Ecology Some species of mushroom coral such as ''Fungia repanda'' and ''Ctenactis echinata'' are able to change sex. This is posited to take place in resp ...
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Malesia
Malesia is a biogeographical region straddling the Equator and the boundaries of the Indomalayan and Australasian realms, and also a phytogeographical floristic region in the Paleotropical Kingdom. It has been given different definitions. The World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions split off Papuasia in its 2001 version. Floristic province Malesia was first identified as a floristic region that included the Malay Peninsula, the Malay Archipelago, New Guinea, and the Bismarck Archipelago, based on a shared tropical flora derived mostly from Asia but also with numerous elements of the Antarctic flora, including many species in the southern conifer families Podocarpaceae and Araucariaceae. The floristic region overlaps four distinct mammalian faunal regions. The first edition of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) used this definition, but in the second edition of 2001, New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago were r ...
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Sandalolitha Boucheti
''Sandalolitha'' is a genus of cnidarians belonging to the family Fungiidae. The species of this genus are found in Indian Ocean, Malesia and Pacific Ocean. Species: *''Sandalolitha boucheti'' *''Sandalolitha dentata'' *''Sandalolitha robusta ''Sandalolitha robusta'' is a plate or mushroom coral in the family Fungiidae. This coral is found in the Indo-Pacific region.Cnidarians ...
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Sandalolitha Robusta
''Sandalolitha robusta'' is a plate or mushroom coral in the family Fungiidae. This coral is found in the Indo-Pacific region.''Sandalolitha''
Reef coral genera of the Western Indian Ocean. Retrieved 2011-12-14.


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''Sandalolitha robusta'' is a large, heavy colonial coral that is free living, not being attached to the substrate. The numerous individual s, in which the polyps are embedded, are separate from each other. They are bordered by alternating wide and narrow