Euphyllia divisa (reclassified in 2017 as Fimbriaphyllia divisa), commonly known as frogspawn coral and sometimes misspelled ''Euphyllia divisia'', is a large-polyped

stony coral 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 ...

native to the Indo-Pacific islands. It is a commonly kept species in the

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hobby. The related coral '' Fimbriaphyllia paradivisa'' is frequently misidentified as frogspawn leading to some confusion. ''Fimbriaphyllia divisa'' has a corallite skeleton with a flabello-meandroid "wall" structure whereas '' Fimbriaphyllia paradivisa'' has a tree-like branching structure with separate corallites.

Distribution and habitat

It is native to the Indo-Pacific, Australia, Southeast Asia, the

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and East China Sea, the

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, Fiji, and

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References

Euphylliidae Animals described in 1979 {{scleractinia-stub