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Diploastrea heliopora
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Diploastrea heliopora

Diploastrea heliopora, known commonly as the diploastrea brain coral or honeycomb coral among other vernacular names, is a species of hard coral in the family Diploastreidae. It is the only species in the genus Diploastrea. This species can form massive dome-shaped colonies of great size.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 50357.