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Star Corals
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Star Corals

Montastraea

Montastraea is a genus of stony corals in the Montastraeidae family. This genus used to contain many species that are now reclassified into different genera, most notably Orbicella.

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1 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Greater Star Coral

speciesMontastraea cavernosa

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Recorded sightings

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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 90031.