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Heteropsammia cochlea, Walking dendro

Heteropsammia cochlea (Spengler, 1781)

Invalid synonym: Heteropsammia ovalis, Heteropsammia ovalis var. japonica

so-called Solitary coral

• Modern species: Pleistocene - Present (2.58 - 0.0 Ma)
• Habitat: Marine

• Classification
• kingdom Animalia, phylum Cnidaria, class Anthozoa, subclass Hexacorallia, order Scleractinia, family Dendrophylliidae, genus Heteropsammia

• Distribution
• Pleistocene: Chiba