''Micromussa'' 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 polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral disc in which a mo ...
in the
family
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Lobophylliidae
Lobophylliidae is a Family (biology), family of large polyp Scleractinia, 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 Polyph ...
.
Species
The World Register of Marine Species currently lists the following species:
[
* '' Micromussa amakusensis'' (Veron, 1990)
* '' Micromussa indiana'' Benzoni & Arrigoni, 2016
* '' Micromussa lordhowensis'' (Veron & Pichon, 1982)
* '' Micromussa multipunctata'' (Hodgson, 1985)
* '' Micromussa pacifica'' Benzoni & Arrigoni, 2016
* '' Micromussa regularis'' (Veron, 2000)
]
References
Lobophylliidae
Scleractinia genera
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