Turbinaria heronensis
Turbinaria heronensis, commonly known as disc coral, is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Dendrophylliidae. It is native to the Indo-Pacific region where it occurs in shallow water in Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, the Philippines and Australia. It is a zooxanthellate coral that houses symbiont dinoflagellates in its tissues. It is an uncommon species and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has rated it as "vulnerable". It was described by Wells in 1958.
Q7432
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Q354341
colonial
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Q35409
family
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Q145843
Dendrophylliidae
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Q220392
zooxanthella
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Q121610
symbiont
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Q120490
dinoflagellate
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Q48268
International Union for Conservation of Nature
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Q278113
vulnerable
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Q3947710
Turbinaria heronensis
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1958-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1958
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