Cladocora
Ehrenberg, 1834
Type Species
Madrepora flexuosa Pallas, 1766:; Subsequent Designation
Type Specimen: Holotype; ; Not Traced; Unknown
Type locality: Recent, Mediterranean Sea.
Synonyms
Diagnosis
Colonial, variably branching, phaceloid-dendroid to subflabelloid or even subfasciculate. Gemmation intracalicinal (polystomodaeal) and extracalicinal. Costosepta compact, finely granulated laterally, dentate marginally. Paliform swellings in front of S1 and S2 can be present. Pseudo-columella formed by trabecular extension of axial septal ends, irregularly parietal, spongy to papillose, sublamellar deeper in corallum. Wall septothecal and septoparathecal. Endothecal dissepiments and epithecal wall thin.
Contains
This page has been in preparation since 02-Jun-2007 12:35
This version was contributed by Rosemarie Baron-Szabo on 15-Apr-2017 13:17.
Page authors are: Jarek Stolarski Bert Hoeksema Rosemarie Baron-Szabo Stephen D. Cairns. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.
The editor is: Stephen D. Cairns
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