Psammocoridae

Chevalier and Beauvais, 1987, p. 704

Psammocoridae Chevalier and Beauvais, 1987, p. 704 is a junior synonym (available and invalid), see Fungiidae Dana, 1846, p. 283.

Recently used by Benzoni, F., Arrigoni, R., Stefani, F., Reijnen, B.T., Montano, S. and Hoeksema, B.W. (2012) Phylogenetic position and taxonomy of Cycloseris explanulata and C. wellsi (Scleractinia: Fungiidae): lost mushroom corals find their way home. Contributions to Zoology, 81, 125–146.

Diagnosis

Corallum colonial and attached, free living colonies (coralliths) are common in some species; corallum shape encrusting, foliose, massive, columnar, branching; budding intratentacular and extratentacular; synapticulotheca; costae absent; entosepta and exosepta alternate and fuse forming fan-like groups of septa; enclosed entosepta are formed by the fusion and division of endo and exosepta; septa perforated; septal margins and faces ornamented; entosepta and enclosed entosepta mostly petaloid and with exsert distal ends; pali absent; endothecal dissepiments sparse; columella present; series of calices surrounded by rows of enclosed entosepta and, ultimately, by the same perforated wall can form; collines I present or absent; coenosteum absent; an entoseptum bears a tentacle, an exoseptum does not; an enclosed entoseptum bears an extrapolypal tentacle.

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This version was contributed by Danwei Huang on 27-Sep-2012 20:53.

Page authors are: Francesca Benzoni Danwei Huang. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.

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