''Cynarina'' is a

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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

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Lobophylliidae Lobophylliidae is a family of large polyp stony corals. The family was created in 2009 after a revision of the "robust" families of Faviidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae and Pectiniidae, which had been shown to be polyphyletic. The family Lobophylliida ...

Species

The

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currently lists the following species: * ''

Cynarina lacrymalis ''Cynarina lacrymalis'' is a species of stony coral in the family Lobophylliidae. It is variously known as the flat cup coral, solitary cup coral, button coral, doughnut coral, or cat's eye coral. It is found in the western Indo-Pacific Ocean an ...

'' ( Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) * '' Cynarina macassarensis'' (Best & Hoeksema, 1987)

References

Lobophylliidae Scleractinia genera {{Scleractinia-stub