Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Cycloseris curvata
coral hongo, coral de vida libre, Stony coral, mushroom coral
Forms a single corrullum polyp, dome shaped, almost round, and less than 10 cm in diameter.
Found on corse substrate, east of the Devils Crown (Floreana), and Gardner Bay (Espanola).
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Anthozoa
Order
Scleractinia
Family
Fungiidae
Genus
Cycloseris
Species
curvata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Cycloseris elegans (Verrill, 1870), Fungia (Cycloseris) curvata Hoeksema, 1989, Fungia curvata Hoeksema, 1989, Fungia elegans Verrill, 1870 (Horton et al., 2021)
Origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Found in the central Indo-Pacific, east Africa, and eastern Pacific from the Gulf of California to mainland Ecuador including the south-west Bioregion of Galapagos.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. (2008) A field guide to corals and other radiates of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 162 pp.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. Chiriboga, A., Ober, W.C. (2005) A field guide to corals of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 54 pp.
- Hickman, C.P. Jr. (2009) Evolutionary Responses of Marine Invertebrates to Insular Isolation in Galapagos. Journal of Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands, p. 32-42.
- Veron, J.E.N. Stafford-Smith, M.G. (2011) Coral ID. www.coralid.com version 1.1. Aust. Inst. Mar. Sci. Available online at http://coral.aims.gov.au
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Cycloseris curvata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=7935. Accessed 29 June 2025.