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Siderastrea
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Siderastrea

Siderastreidae is a family of reef building stony corals. Members of the family include symbiotic algae called Zooxanthellae in their tissues which help provide their energy requirements.

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4 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Massive Starlet Coral

speciesSiderastrea siderea

Lesser Starlet Coral

speciesSiderastrea radians

Brazilian Starlet Coral

speciesSiderastrea stellata

African Pillow Coral

speciesSiderastrea savignyana

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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 92037.