Euphyllia divisa (reclassified in 2017 as Fimbriaphyllia divisa), commonly known as frogspawn coral and sometimes misspelled ''Euphyllia divisia'', is a large-polyped
stony coral native to the
Indo-Pacific
The Indo-Pacific is a vast biogeographic region of Earth.
In a narrow sense, sometimes known as the Indo-West Pacific or Indo-Pacific Asia, it comprises the tropical waters of the Indian Ocean, the western and central Pacific Ocean, and the ...
islands. It is a commonly kept species in the
marine aquarium hobby. The related coral ''
Fimbriaphyllia paradivisa'' is frequently misidentified as
frogspawn
A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (ανοὐρά, literally ''without tail'' in Ancient Greek). The oldest fossil "proto-frog" ''Triadobatrachus'' is ...
leading to some confusion. ''Fimbriaphyllia divisa'' has a
corallite
A corallite is the skeletal cup, formed by an individual stony coral polyp, in which the polyp sits and into which it can retract. The cup is composed of aragonite, a crystalline form of calcium carbonate, and is secreted by the polyp. Corallit ...
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
Ryukyu Islands and
East China Sea
The East China Sea is an arm of the Western Pacific Ocean, located directly offshore from East China. It covers an area of roughly . The sea’s northern extension between mainland China and the Korean Peninsula is the Yellow Sea, separated b ...
, the
Solomon Islands, Fiji, and
Palau
References
Euphylliidae
Animals described in 1979
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