| Porites nodifera | |
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| Porites nodifera with a tridacna clam | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Scleractinia |
| Family: | Poritidae |
| Genus: | Porites |
| Species: | P. nodifera
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| Binomial name | |
| Porites nodifera Klunzinger, 1879
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Porites nodifera, also known as dome coral, is a species of stony coral in the Poritidae family.[2][1][3]
It was first described by Carl Benjamin Klunzinger, a German physician and zoologist active in the Red Sea region in the 1860s, and classifying its species in the 1870s and 1880s.
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