Turbinaria conspicua
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| Turbinaria conspicua | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Subphylum: | Anthozoa |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Scleractinia |
| Family: | Dendrophylliidae |
| Genus: | Turbinaria |
| Species: | T. conspicua |
| Binomial name | |
| Turbinaria conspicua Bernard, 1896[2] | |
Turbinaria conspicua, commonly known as Disc coral, is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. It is found abundant in the eastern Indian Ocean and the western Pacific region, including Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and northern Australia. It is a zooxanthellaa coral that houses symbiont dinoflagellates in its tissues. It was studied by Bernard in 1896, and he rated it as a least concern species by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
It is a colonial stony coral where its colonies contain bifacial fronds in small diameters. Immersed in them are small corallites and its colour is commonly cream or pale brown.[3] It is a zooxanthellate rare coral that houses symbiont dinoflagellates in its tissues.[1]