Fungia

• Commonly known as mushroom coral.

• It is solitary found in warm seas usually in Gulf of California.

• The mushroom coral is of large size, with discoid coralite, convex on the upper and concave on the lower surface.

• Septa are numerous and connected together by small synaptacula.

• Theca is present only on the lower surface.

• Adult animal bears a single large polyp with many teantacles.

• Siphonoglyph is absent.

• Reproduction resembling more or less transverse fission.