Heteropsammia cochlea
| Heteropsammia cochlea | |
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| At Watson's Bay, Lizard Island, 17 metres depth | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Subphylum: | Anthozoa |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Scleractinia |
| Family: | Dendrophylliidae |
| Genus: | Heteropsammia |
| Species: | H. cochlea |
| Binomial name | |
| Heteropsammia cochlea (Spengler, 1781) | |
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Heteropsammia cochlea, also known as walking dendro, is a species of small solitary coral in the family Dendrophylliidae that is native to the Indo-Pacific area.