page_title: List of marine animals of Australia (temperate waters)
section_title: Order Scleractinia
hierarchical_section_title: List of marine animals of Australia (temperate waters) / Phylum Cnidaria / Class  Anthozoa / Order Scleractinia
caption_attribution_description: English: Balanophyllia bairdiana Orange cup coral (Magic Point, Maroubra)
context_page_description: The list of marine animals of Australia (temperate waters) is a list of marine and shore-based species that form a part of the fauna of Australia. This list includes animals which either live entirely marine lives, or which spend critical parts of their lives at sea.
  The geographical range is south of Perth, Western Australia and the border of New South Wales and Queensland, including the whole of the coasts of South Australia and Tasmania and their offshore islands. Tropical species which are also found in this range may also be listed here.
  The listed organisms are generally identifiable to the naked eye. Many microscopic animals also inhabit this region.
  Ranges are generally given relating to Australian waters. If listed as endemic, they have been found only in the listed range. Others may have much greater ranges.
context_section_description: (Stony corals)
  Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) bairdiana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848, Orange solitary coral, (Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, to southern Queensland and around Tasmania.)
  Coscinaraea mcneilli  Wells, 1962, McNeill's coral, (Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, to Byron Bay, New South Wales.)
  Coscinaraea marshae Wells, 1962, Marsh's coral, (Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia, to Pearson Island, South Australia.)
  Culicia tenella Dana, 1846, Little coral, (Perth, Western Australia, to Solitary Islands, New South Wales, and around Tasmania.)
  Homophyllia australis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1846), Green solitary coral, reported as Scolymia australis, (Rottnest Island, Western Australia, to Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, and Flinders Island, Tasmania. Also Qld and Lord Howe Island.)
  Plesiastrea versipora (Lamarck, 1816), Green coral, (Around Australia and northern Tasmania. Also widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region.)
  Turbinaria reniformis Bernard, 1896, Kidney-shaped coral, (Tropical Australia south to Recherche Archipelago, Western Australia. Also widespread in the Indo-West Pacific region.)
caption: Balanophyllia bairdiana
  (Orange cup coral)
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