Summary ²

Diploastrea heliopora, known commonly as the diploastrea brain coral or honeycomb coral among other vernacular names, is a species of hard coral in the family Diploastreidae. It is the only species in the genus Diploastrea. This species can form massive dome-shaped colonies of great size.

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2. (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diploastrea_heliopora

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