Green Open Brain Coral

Trachyphyllia geoffroyi

• Group: Coral
• IUCN status: LC

A free living coral that rests unattached on soft sandy or muddy bottoms in sheltered lagoons and inter reef habitats. Its fleshy folds swell over the skeleton during the day and glow green or brown, and it often shares the seabed with other solitary corals.

Taxonomy: Animalia › Cnidaria › Hexacorallia › Scleractinia › Merulinidae › Trachyphyllia

Species data via the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), AphiaID 207495.