Dipsastraea
Dipsastraea matthai
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Hexacorallia
Order:	Scleractinia
Family:	Merulinidae
Genus:	Dipsastraea Blainville, 1830 [1]
Species
See text
Synonyms
List Astraea (Fissicella) Barabattoia Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941 (junior synonym) Bikiniastrea Wells, 1954 Heliastraea Milne Edwards, 1857 Heliastrea Milne Edwards, 1857

Dipsastraea pallida

Dipsastraea is a genus of stony corals in the family Merulinidae. Members of this genus are native to the Indo-Pacific region. They are zooxanthellate corals.

Species

The following species are currently recognized by the World Register of Marine Species :^[1]

• Dipsastraea albida (Veron, 2000)
• Dipsastraea amicorum (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)
• Dipsastraea camranensis (Latypov, 2013)
• Dipsastraea danai (Milne Edwards, 1857)
• Dipsastraea faviaformis (Veron, 2000)
• Dipsastraea favus (Forskål, 1775)
• Dipsastraea helianthoides (Wells, 1954)
• Dipsastraea lacuna (Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2000)
• Dipsastraea laddi (Wells, 1954)
• Dipsastraea laxa (Klunzinger, 1879)
• Dipsastraea lizardensis (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977)
• Dipsastraea maritima (Nemezo, 1971)
• Dipsastraea marshae (Veron, 2000)
• Dipsastraea matthaii (Vaughan, 1918)
• Dipsastraea maxima (Veron, Pichon & Wijsman-Best, 1977)
• Dipsastraea modesta (Nemenzo, 1971)
• Dipsastraea pallida (Dana, 1846)
• Dipsastraea rosaria (Veron, 2000)
• Dipsastraea rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)
• Dipsastraea speciosa (Dana, 1846)
• Dipsastraea truncata (Veron, 2000)
• Dipsastraea veroni (Moll & Best, 1984)
• Dipsastraea vietnamensis (Veron, 2000)
• Dipsastraea wisseli (Scheer & Pillai, 1983)

References