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Montastraea
Genus of corals / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Montastraea is a genus of colonial stony coral found in the Caribbean seas. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Montastraeidae and contains a single species, Montastraea cavernosa, known as great star coral. It forms into massive boulders and sometimes develops into plates. Its polyps are the size of a human thumb and fully extend at night.[2]
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Hexacorallia |
Order: | Scleractinia |
Family: | Montastraeidae Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941 |
Genus: | Montastraea Blainville, 1830 |
Species: | M. cavernosa |
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Montastraea cavernosa (Linnaeus, 1767) | |
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