- Source: Cyphastrea
Cyphastrea is a genus of massive reef building stony corals in the family Merulinidae, commonly known as brain coral.
Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species:
Cyphastrea agassizi (Vaughan, 1907) - Agassiz's brain coral
Cyphastrea chalcidicum (Forsskål, 1775)
Cyphastrea decadia Moll & Best, 1984
Cyphastrea hexasepta Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2000
Cyphastrea japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932
Cyphastrea kausti Bouwmeester & Benzoni, 2015
Cyphastrea magna Benzoni & Arrigoni, 2017
Cyphastrea microphthalma (Lamarck, 1816)
Cyphastrea ocellina (Dana, 1846) - ocellated brain coral
Cyphastrea salae Baird, Hoogenboom & Huang, 2017
Cyphastrea serailia (Forsskål, 1775)
Cyphastrea zhongjianensis Zou, 1980