Isophyllia is a genus of stony coral in the subfamily Mussinae of the family Mussidae.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Scleractinia |
| Family: | Mussidae |
| Genus: | Isophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 [1] |
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Characteristics
editIsophyllia is a colonial coral. Budding is always intracalicular, occurring inside the oral disc of the polyp, within the whorl of tentacles. The corallites are meandroid, that is, they are linked in a short series of up to five centres. The individual corallites are medium-sized, being 2.5 to 5 mm (0.1 to 0.2 in) in diameter and up to 6 mm (0.2 in) high. There are three or more cycles of septa in each corallite, all equal in size. A narrow costate coenosteum separates the corallites.[2]
Species
editThe World Register of Marine Species lists the following species :[1]
- Isophyllia rigida (Dana, 1848)
- Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
References
edit- ^ a b Hoeksema, Bert (2018). "Isophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
- ^ Budd, Ann F.; Fukami, Hironobu; Smith, Nathan D.; Knowlton, Nancy (2012). "Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 166 (3): 465–529. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x.
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