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Heliopora is a genus of cnidarian in the family Helioporidae. [1] The genus consists of reef building corals, and is ancient and highly conserved. [ 2 ] The species heliopora coerulea is also known as "blue coral".
The blue coral (Heliopora coerulea), the only extant species in the family Helioporidae, is most common in shallow water of the tropical Pacific [6] and Indo-Pacific reefs. [7] It has no spicules , and is the only octocoral known to produce a massive skeleton formed of fibrocrystalline aragonite fused into lamellae , similar to that of the ...
Blue coral (Heliopora coerulea) is a species of colonial coral. It is the only octocoral known to produce a massive skeleton. [3] This skeleton is formed of aragonite, similar to that of scleractinia. Individual polyps live in tubes within the skeleton and are connected by a thin layer of tissue over the outside of the skeleton.
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Diploastrea is the only genus of corals in its monotypic family, Diploastreidae, containing the extant Diploastrea heliopora (Lamarck, 1816) and the extinct Diploastrea polygonalis (Martin, 1880). References
Diploastrea heliopora was first described in 1816 by the French naturalist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck as Astrea heliopora. It was transferred to the new genus Diploastrea by G. Matthai in 1914. [5] Diploastrea heliopora was included in the family Agathiphylliidae by T.W. Vaughan and J.W. Wells in 1943. It was the only extant member of the family ...
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