''Echinopora'' is a
genus
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of
stony corals
Scleractinia, also called stony corals or hard corals, are marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria that build themselves a hard skeleton. The individual animals are known as polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral disc in which a mo ...
in the
family
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Merulinidae.
Species
The following
species
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are currently recognized:
* ''
Echinopora ashmorensis''
Veron, 1990
* ''
Echinopora forskaliana''
(Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)
* ''
Echinopora fruticulosa''
Klunzinger, 1879
* ''
Echinopora gemmacea''
(Lamarck, 1816)
* ''
Echinopora hirsutissima''
Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
* ''
Echinopora horrida''
Dana, 1846
* ''
Echinopora irregularis''
Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2000
* ''
Echinopora lamellosa''
(Esper, 1795)
* ''
Echinopora mammiformis''
(Nemenzo, 1959)
* ''
Echinopora pacificus''
Veron, 1990
* ''
Echinopora robusta''
Veron, 2000
* ''
Echinopora spinulosa''
Brüggemann
* ''
Echinopora tiranensis''
Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2000
References
Merulinidae
Scleractinia genera
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