''Homophyllia'' is a
genus
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of
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 polyp (zoology), polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral di ...
in the
family
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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 Lobophylliid ...
.
Species
The World Register of Marine Species currently lists the following species:
[
* '' Homophyllia australis'' (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)
* '' Homophyllia bowerbanki'' (Milne Edwards, 1857)
]
References
Lobophylliidae
Scleractinia genera
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