Heliopora
| Heliopora | |
|---|---|
| Heliopora coerulea | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Octocorallia |
| Order: | Helioporacea |
| Family: | Helioporidae Moseley, 1876 |
| Genus: | Heliopora de Blainville, 1830 |
Heliopora is a genus of cnidarian in the monotypic family Helioporidae. It is a reef building hard coral but belongs to the subclass Octocorallia and is therefore most closely related to soft corals, sea pens, fan corals and sea whips and not to the main reef-building Scleractinian corals, which belong to subclass Hexacorallia. Currently only three species are known, one of which is known only from fossils:
- Heliopora coerulea (Pallas, 1766) - blue coral
- Heliopora fijiensis† Hoffmeister, 1945
- Heliopora hiberniana Richards, Yasuda, Kikuchi, Foster, Mitsuyuki, Stat, Suyama & Wilson, 2018
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