Pocilloporidae
Gray, 1840, p. 72
The oft-cited Gray, 1842, p. 135, is not the first use of the family Pocilloporidae. The name appeared two years earlier in the same series of the Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum (Gray, J.E., South rooms of the north gallery. Syn. Cont. Brit. Mus., 41, 54–84) in a similar list of collections in the museum's north gallery.
Synonyms
Diagnosis
Colonial, submassive or branching, plocoid. Colony formation by extratentacular budding. Corallites are cylindrical, immersed or conical and small. Well developed vertically discontinuous styliform columella. Septa rarely more than 2 cycles. Some septa fused with the columella; often reduced to narrow laminae or striae. Coenosteum solid or vesicular.
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This version was contributed by Danwei Huang on 27-Sep-2012 20:34.
Page authors are: Jim Klaus Danwei Huang. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.
The editor is: Ann Budd
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