We present a genome assembly from a Micromussa lordhowensis specimen (starry cup coral; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Lobophylliidae). The genome sequence has a total length of 582.08 megabases. Most of the assembly (89.67%) is scaffolded into 15 chromosomal pseudomolecules. The mitochondrial genome has also been assembled, with a length of 18.25 kilobases. Gene annotation of this assembly by Ensembl identified 32 953 protein-coding genes. From the metagenome data, we recovered 11 bins, of which four were high-quality MAGs.
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