Tubastraea diaphana

Tubastraea diaphana

Classification

Class: Anthozoa
Order: Scleractinia
Family: Dendrophylliidae

Tubastraea, also known as sun coral or sun polyps, is a genus of coral in the phylum Cnidaria. It is a cup coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. Description Sun corals belong to a group of corals known as large-polyp stony corals.

Distribution

Tubastraea diaphana — (c) portioid, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

France · 10United States of America · 3Brazil · 1

Sources and credits

Photo(c) portioid, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY DescriptionTubastraea, Wikipedia contributors

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