''Cyphastrea'' is a
genus of massive reef building
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 Merulinidae, commonly known as brain coral.
Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species:
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Cyphastrea agassizi
''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:
*'' Cyphastrea agassizi'' (Vaughan, 1907) - Agas ...
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(Vaughan, 1907) - Agassiz's brain coral
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Cyphastrea chalcidicum
''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:
*'' Cyphastrea agassizi'' (Vaughan, 1907) - Agas ...
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(Forsskål, 1775)
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Cyphastrea decadia
''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:
*'' Cyphastrea agassizi'' (Vaughan, 1907) - Agas ...
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Moll & Best, 1984
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Cyphastrea hexasepta
''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:
*'' Cyphastrea agassizi'' (Vaughan, 1907) - Agas ...
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Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2000
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Cyphastrea japonica
''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:
*'' Cyphastrea agassizi'' (Vaughan, 1907) - Agas ...
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Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932
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Cyphastrea kausti
''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:
*'' Cyphastrea agassizi'' (Vaughan, 1907) - Agas ...
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Bouwmeester & Benzoni, 2015
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Cyphastrea magna
''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:
*'' Cyphastrea agassizi'' (Vaughan, 1907) - Agas ...
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Benzoni & Arrigoni, 2017
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Cyphastrea microphthalma
''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:
*'' Cyphastrea agassizi'' (Vaughan, 1907) - Agas ...
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(Lamarck, 1816)
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Cyphastrea ocellina
''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:
*'' Cyphastrea agassizi'' (Vaughan, 1907) - Agas ...
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(Dana, 1846) - ocellated brain coral
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*'']Cyphastrea salae
''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:
*'' Cyphastrea agassizi'' (Vaughan, 1907) - Agas ...
'' Baird, Hoogenboom & Huang, 2017
*''Cyphastrea serailia
''Cyphastrea'' is a genus of massive reef building stony corals in the family Merulinidae
Merulinidae is a family of reef-building stony corals.
Characteristics
All the genera in this family are colonial, reef-building corals. Skeletal struc ...
'' (Forsskål, 1775)
*''Cyphastrea zhongjianensis
''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:
*'' Cyphastrea agassizi'' (Vaughan, 1907) - Agas ...
'' Zou, 1980
References
Merulinidae
Taxa named by Henri Milne-Edwards
Taxa named by Jules Haime
Scleractinia genera
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