| Schizoculina fissipara | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Subphylum: | Anthozoa |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Scleractinia |
| Family: | Oculinidae |
| Genus: | Schizoculina |
| Species: | S. fissipara |
| Binomial name | |
| Schizoculina fissipara | |
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Schizoculina fissipara is a species of colonial stony coral in the family Oculinidae found in the eastern Atlantic Ocean on the western coast of Africa. [1] [2]
Schizoculina fissipara can have an upright growth habit or be encrusting, sometimes extending over 1 metre (3 ft 3 in). The upright branches are blueish grey or pale brown. The corallites which house the polyps are circular and up to 5 millimetres (0.20 in) in diameter. Sometimes several of them are linked in series. [2] Schizoculina fissipara has a symbiotic relationship with zooxanthellae, microalgae that live within the tissue of the polyp. [3]
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