{{Short description|Genus of corals}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Heliopora.JPG | image_alt = "Heliopora coerulea" | image_caption = ''Heliopora coerulea'' | parent_authority = Moseley, 1876 | taxon = Heliopora | authority = de Blainville, 1830 }}
'''''Heliopora''''' is a genus of cnidarians in the family Helioporidae (see below for the family).<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Heliopora de Blainville, 1830 |url=https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206210 |access-date=2024-07-14 |website=World Register of Marine Species |language=en}}</ref> The genus consists of reef building corals, and is ancient and highly conserved.<ref name=":1" /> The species ''Heliopora coerulea'' is also known as "blue coral".<ref name=":1" />
== Helioporidae == In most texts, the family '''Helioporidae''' includes only the genus ''Heliopora'' and several extinct genera. However, according to McFadden et al. 2022 and some authors in the past, the family Helioporidae is identical with the whole traditional order Helioporacea, i. e. it also contains what is called the family Aulopsammiidae (= Lithotelestidae) by other authors.<ref name=":0"/><ref>{{Cite journal |last=McFadden |first=Catherine S. |last2=Ofwegen |first2=Leen P. van |last3=Quattrini |first3=Andrea M. |date=14 October 2022 |title=Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics |url=https://ssbbulletin.org/index.php/bssb/article/view/8735 |journal=Bulletin of the Society of Systematic Biologists |language=en |volume=1 |issue=3 |doi=10.18061/bssb.v1i3.8735 |issn=2768-0819|doi-access=free }}</ref><ref>Morales, H. H., Löser, H. Revision of the family Helioporidae (Helioporacea, Anthozoa; Cretaceous – Extant). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen Band 287 Heft 3 (2018), p. 351 - 363 [https://www.schweizerbart.de/papers/njgpa/detail/287/88698/Revision_of_the_family_Helioporidae_Helioporacea_A?af=crossref]</ref>
== Species == Currently, the species known to be part of the genus ''Heliopora'' are:<ref name=":0" /> * ''Heliopora coerulea'' <small>(Pallas, 1766)</small> - blue coral * ''Heliopora fijiensis''† <small>Hoffmeister, 1945</small> *''Heliopora hiberniana'' <small>Richards, Yasuda, Kikuchi, Foster, Mitsuyuki, Stat, Suyama & Wilson, 2018</small><ref name=":1">{{Cite journal|last=Wilson|first=Nerida G.|last2=Suyama|first2=Yoshihisa|last3=Stat|first3=Michael|last4=Chika Mitsuyuki|last5=Foster|first5=Taryn|last6=Kikuchi|first6=Taisei|last7=Yasuda|first7=Nina|last8=Richards|first8=Zoe T.|date=2018-10-26|title=Integrated evidence reveals a new species in the ancient blue coral genus Heliopora (Octocorallia)|journal=Scientific Reports|language=en|volume=8|issue=1|pages=15875|doi=10.1038/s41598-018-32969-z|issn=2045-2322|pmc=6203795|pmid=30367122|bibcode=2018NatSR...815875R}}</ref>
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