Cyphastrea
{{Short description|Genus of cnidarians}}
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| image = Cyphastrea serailia.jpg
| image_alt = "Cyphastrea serailia" off Réunion
| image_caption = Cyphastrea serailia off Réunion
| taxon = Cyphastrea
| authority = Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = {{center|See text}}
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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:{{cite web|url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206488|title=WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Cyphastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848|author=|date=|website=www.marinespecies.org|accessdate=16 April 2019}}
- Cyphastrea agassizi (Vaughan, 1907) - Agassiz's brain coralFenner, Douglas (2005). Corals of Hawai'i : field guide to the hard, black, and soft corals of Hawai'i and the northwest Hawaiian Islands, including Midway. Honolulu, Hawai'i: Mutual Pub. {{ISBN|1-56647-673-9}}.
- 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
- Cyphastrea salae Baird, Hoogenboom & Huang, 2017
- Cyphastrea serailia (Forsskål, 1775)
- Cyphastrea zhongjianensis Zou, 1980
References
{{Commons category|Cyphastrea}}
{{Wikispecies|Cyphastrea|Cyphastrea}}
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Category:Taxa named by Henri Milne-Edwards
Category:Taxa named by Jules Haime
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