Scleractinia taxon details
Taxogyra Wells, 1937 †
1452818 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1452818)
accepted
Genus
Meandrina macroreina Michelin, 1847 † accepted as Taxogyra macroreina (Michelin, 1847) † (type by original designation)
Heterophyllia d'Orbigny, 1849 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Wells JW. (1937). New genera of Mesozoic and Cenozoic corals. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 11: 73-77. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Taxogyra Wells, 1937 †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1452818 on 2024-09-08
original description
Wells JW. (1937). New genera of Mesozoic and Cenozoic corals. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 11: 73-77. [details]
original description (of Heterophyllia d'Orbigny, 1849 †) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1849). Note sur des Polypiers fossiles. <em>Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 2e sér.</em> 1: 526-538. [details]
original description (of Heterophyllia d'Orbigny, 1849 †) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1849). Note sur des Polypiers fossiles. <em>Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 2e sér.</em> 1: 526-538. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Colonial, massive, meandroid. Budding intracalicular (-polystomodaeal), resulting in long sinuous calicinal series, separated by flattened collines. Ambulacra absent. Costosepta compact, confluent, laterally covered by various types of granules such as spiniform, rounded, paddle-shaped, and carina-like. Columella lamellar, discontinuous. Endothecal dissepiments abundant. No synapticulae. Wall parathecal to septoparathecal. [details]Remark Affinities. The genus Taxogyra Wells is closely related to Astrogyra Felix, but is distinguished from the latter in lacking ambulacra. [details]
