Isophyllia | |
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Isophyllia sinuosa | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Hexacorallia |
Order: | Scleractinia |
Family: | Mussidae |
Genus: |
Isophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 [1] |
Species | |
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Isophyllia is a genus of stony coral in the subfamily Mussinae of the family Mussidae.
Isophyllia is a colonial coral. Budding is always intracalicular, occurring inside the oral disc of the polyp, within the whorl of tentacles. The corallites are meandroid, that is, they are linked in a short series of up to five centres. The individual corallites are medium-sized, being 2.5 to 5 mm (0.1 to 0.2 in) in diameter and up to 6 mm (0.2 in) high. There are three or more cycles of septa in each corallite, all equal in size. A narrow costate coenosteum separates the corallites. [2]
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species : [1]
Isophyllia | |
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Isophyllia sinuosa | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Hexacorallia |
Order: | Scleractinia |
Family: | Mussidae |
Genus: |
Isophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 [1] |
Species | |
See text | |
Synonyms | |
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Isophyllia is a genus of stony coral in the subfamily Mussinae of the family Mussidae.
Isophyllia is a colonial coral. Budding is always intracalicular, occurring inside the oral disc of the polyp, within the whorl of tentacles. The corallites are meandroid, that is, they are linked in a short series of up to five centres. The individual corallites are medium-sized, being 2.5 to 5 mm (0.1 to 0.2 in) in diameter and up to 6 mm (0.2 in) high. There are three or more cycles of septa in each corallite, all equal in size. A narrow costate coenosteum separates the corallites. [2]
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species : [1]