Cyphastrea Milne Edwards & Haime 1848

Cyphastrea is a genus of massive reef building stony corals in the family Merulinidae, commonly known as brain coral.

Species

The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species:^[1]

• Cyphastrea agassizi (Vaughan, 1907) - Agassiz's brain coral^[2]
• Cyphastrea chalcidicum (Forsskål, 1775)
• Cyphastrea decadia Moll & Best, 1984
• Cyphastrea hexasepta Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2000
• Cyphastrea japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932
• Cyphastrea kausti Bouwmeester & Benzoni, 2015
• Cyphastrea magna Benzoni & Arrigoni, 2017
• Cyphastrea microphthalma (Lamarck, 1816)
• Cyphastrea ocellina (Dana, 1846) - ocellated brain coral^[2]
• Cyphastrea salae Baird, Hoogenboom & Huang, 2017
• Cyphastrea serailia (Forsskål, 1775)
• Cyphastrea zhongjianensis Zou, 1980

References

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