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''Lobophyllia'', commonly called lobed brain coral or lobo coral, is a
genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of large polyp
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 ...
s. Members of this genus are sometimes found in
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s.


Species

This genus includes the following species: * '' Lobophyllia agaricia'' (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) * '' Lobophyllia corymbosa'' (Forskal, 1775) * '' Lobophyllia costata'' (Dana, 1846) * '' Lobophyllia dentata'' Veron, 2000 * '' Lobophyllia diminuta'' Veron, 1985 * '' Lobophyllia erythraea'' (Klunzinger, 1879) * '' Lobophyllia flabelliformis'' Veron, 2002 * '' Lobophyllia grandis'' Latypov, 2006 * '' Lobophyllia hassi'' (Pillai & Scheer, 1976) * '' Lobophyllia hataii'' Yabe, Sugiyama & Eguchi, 1936 * ''
Lobophyllia hemprichii ''Lobophyllia hemprichii'', commonly called lobed brain coral, lobed cactus coral or largebrain root coral, is a species of large polyp stony coral in the family Lobophylliidae. It is found in the Indo-Pacific Ocean. In its specific name Christia ...
'' (Ehrenberg, 1834) * '' Lobophyllia ishigakiensis'' (Veron, 1990) * '' Lobophyllia radians'' (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) * '' Lobophyllia recta'' (Dana, 1846) * '' Lobophyllia robusta'' Yabe, Sugiyama & Eguchi, 1936 * '' Lobophyllia rowleyensis'' (Veron, 1985) * '' Lobophyllia serrata'' Veron, 2002 * '' Lobophyllia sinuosa'' (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) * '' Lobophyllia valenciennesii'' (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) * '' Lobophyllia vitiensis'' (Brüggemann, 1877)


References

Lobophylliidae Taxa named by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville Scleractinia genera {{Scleractinia-stub