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Poritidae

Gray, 1840, p. 72

The oft-cited Gray, 1842, p. 135, is not the first use of the family Poritidae. 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.

Diagnosis

[from Wells 1956] Colonial, hermatypic. Colony formation by extratentacular budding. Corallites mostly united closely without coensoteum, limited by one or more synapticular rings. Septa (except Alveopora) formed by 3 to 8 nearly vertical trabeculae, loosely united, with more or less vertical perforations. Innermost trabeculae of certain septa differentiated as 'pali'. A single columella trabecula.

This page has been in preparation since 02-Oct-2009 17:15

This version was contributed by Danwei Huang on 27-Sep-2012 20:33.

Page authors are: Michel Pichon 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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