Brain coral
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Brain coral is a common name given to various corals in the families Mussidae and Merulinidae, so called due to their generally spheroid shape and grooved surface, which resembles a brain. Each head o
Favites abdita
Manicina areolata 2
Diploria labyrinthiformis (grooved brain coral)
Brain coral spawning
Scleractinia
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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 cylindrica
Brain coral
…a colony of genetically identical polyps which secrete a hard skeleton of calcium carbonate; this makes them important coral reef builders like other stony corals in the order Scleractinia. Brain corals are found in shallow warm water coral reefs in all the world's oceans. They are part of the phylum Cnidaria…
Haeckel Hexacoralla
Diagram showing a coral polyp, its corallite, coenosarc and coenosteum
Meandering corallite walls of an intratentacular budding coral