Lithophyllon spinifer ( Claereboudt & Hoeksema, 1987 )

Hoeksema, Bert W. & Lane, David J. W., 2014, The mushroom coral fauna (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) of Brunei Darussalam (South China Sea) and its relation to the Coral Triangle, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62, pp. 566-580 : 577

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.5354576
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5451471
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scientific name	Lithophyllon spinifer ( Claereboudt & Hoeksema, 1987 )
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Lithophyllon spinifer ( Claereboudt & Hoeksema, 1987) View in CoL

Fungia spinifer View in CoL – Turak & DeVantier, 2011: 139.

Colour photographs of a live specimen published by Turak & DeVantier (2011) were taken in Indonesia. An additional black and white photograph (locality not indicated) only shows a quarter portion of the upper surface of a thin, coral, which could be a juvenile specimen of L. spinifer View in CoL or belong to Cycloseris fragilis View in CoL . Specimens of L. spinifer View in CoL are shaped like a saucer, usually with a thick, bulging central area, a corallum margin turning upward, and strongly developed lower order costae ( Claereboudt & Hoeksema, 1987; Hoeksema, 1989, 1993).

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Class	Anthozoa
Order	Scleractinia
Family	Fungiidae
Genus	Lithophyllon