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Pleuractis
Genus of corals From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pleuractis is a genus of mushroom corals in the family Fungiidae. Members of the genus are found growing on reefs in the Indo-Pacific.
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Taxonomy
Although treated as a subgenus of Fungia by Hoeksma (1989), a 2011 paper elevated Pleuractis to generic level.[1][2]
Species
The World Register of Marine Species currently lists the following species:[3]
- Pleuractis alta (Nemenzo, 1983)
- Pleuractis granulosa (Klunzinger, 1879)
- Pleuractis gravis (Nemenzo, 1955)
- Pleuractis moluccensis (Van der Horst, 1919)
- Pleuractis paumotensis (Stutchbury, 1833)
- Pleuractis seychellensis (Hoeksema, 1993)
- Pleuractis taiwanensis (Hoeksema and Dai, 1991)
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