flabello-meandroid calical arrangement

Summary

shape and organization of colonial coralla in which corallite centres are arranged serially, with each polycentric series enclosed by a single thecal structure. The thecal structure is therefore elongated in transverse section (laterally lenticular to elliptical to flattened, or sinuous, and commonly forked or branched). Such corals may consist of a single system (and, if the series is very short, appear superfically flabelloid), or consist of many systems in fasciculate arrangement. Compare Flabelloid.

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This term is a sub-term of calical arrangement.

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This version was contributed by Ken Johnson on 22-Apr-2008 14:35.