''Tubipora chamissonis'' is an organ coral in the family

Tubiporidae ''Tubipora'' is a genus of soft coral. It is the only genus within the monotypic family Tubiporidae. Tubipora is a soft coral and has an aragonite skeleton, so they are crucial for building reefs around the world. Also, their red color in their ...

. It was first described in 1834 by

Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German Natural history, naturalist, zoologist, Botany, botanist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopy, microscopist. He is considered to be one of the most famous an ...

, from a specimen collected near Radack Island (in the

Marshall Islands The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean. The territory consists of 29 c ...

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{{Taxonbar, from=Q2731663 Tubiporidae Corals described in 1834 Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg