Culicia
Dana, 1846, p. 376
Type Species
C. stellata Dana, 1846, p. 377, pl. 28, figs. 5a-d; Subsequent Designation Wells, 1936, p. 105
Type Specimen: Holotype; USNM 185; Verified; Dry Preserved
Type Locality: Recent: Singapore
Type species well described by Cairns and Zibrowius (1997).
Classification
Synonyms
Diagnosis
Corallum reptoid, additional corallites budded from a basal coenosteum, sometimes stoloniferous; corallites strongly epithecate, the epitheca riseing above the upper outer edges of the septa as a continuous rim; axial edges of S1 lobate, inner edges of remaining cycles dentate to laciniate; paliform lobes often present; columella papillose.
Remarks
About 15 species, most of them Recent (Cairns, 1995; Cairns et al., 1999; Chevalier, 1961).
This page has been in preparation since 04-Aug-2008 15:44
This version was contributed by Stephen D. Cairns on 20-Nov-2008 20:21.
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The editor is: Stephen D. Cairns
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