Scleractinia taxon details
Periseris de Ferry, 1870 †
1439803 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1439803)
accepted
Genus
Agaricia elegantula d'Orbigny, 1850 † accepted as Periseris elegantula (d'Orbigny, 1850) † (type by monotypy)
- Species Periseris elegantula (d'Orbigny, 1850) †
- Species Periseris irregularis (Felix, 1891) †
- Species Periseris pressiatensis Pelletier, 1951 † accepted as Periseris elegantula (d'Orbigny, 1850) † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Ferry, H. de. (1870). Polypiers nouveaux ou peu connus. <em>Annales de l'Académie de Mâcon.</em> 9: 189-206. [details]
Description Massive, often lamellar corallum. Epitheca often present thick and concentrically wrinkled. Intracalicinal increase...
Description Massive, often lamellar corallum. Epitheca often present thick and concentrically wrinkled. Intracalicinal increase producing isotropic thamnasterioid structures to meandroid structures in which ill-defined series are arranged concentrically. Radial elements are subcompact anastomosed sinuous pennular biseptal sheets. Distal edge with stout subequal regular teeth corresponding to trabecules organised in a fan system, lateral faces with continuous menianae. Pennular rims turned toward the distal direction. No palis. Hexameral symmetry not deciphered, bilateral symmetry marked by the torsion of septa and distribution of anastomoses. Endotheca made of vesicular dissepiments, columella styliform, synapticulae present, wall absent. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Periseris de Ferry, 1870 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1439803 on 2026-07-15
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Ferry, H. de. (1870). Polypiers nouveaux ou peu connus. <em>Annales de l'Académie de Mâcon.</em> 9: 189-206. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. <em>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.</em> pp 462. [details]
additional source Lathuiliere, B. (1990). Periseris, scléractiniaire colonial jurassique. Révision structurale et taxinomie de populations bajociennes de l'Est de la France. <em>Geobios.</em> 23(1): 33-55., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-6995(90)80017-a [details]
source of synonymy Pandey, D.K., Fürsich, F.T. (2006). Jurassic corals from the Shemshak Formation of the Alborz Mountains, Iran. <em>Zitteliana.</em> A46: 41-74. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. <em>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.</em> pp 462. [details]
additional source Lathuiliere, B. (1990). Periseris, scléractiniaire colonial jurassique. Révision structurale et taxinomie de populations bajociennes de l'Est de la France. <em>Geobios.</em> 23(1): 33-55., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0016-6995(90)80017-a [details]
source of synonymy Pandey, D.K., Fürsich, F.T. (2006). Jurassic corals from the Shemshak Formation of the Alborz Mountains, Iran. <em>Zitteliana.</em> A46: 41-74. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Comparison The pennular morphology is different from Thamnasteria. The columella is different from Protoseris [details]Description Massive, often lamellar corallum. Epitheca often present thick and concentrically wrinkled. Intracalicinal increase producing isotropic thamnasterioid structures to meandroid structures in which ill-defined series are arranged concentrically. Radial elements are subcompact anastomosed sinuous pennular biseptal sheets. Distal edge with stout subequal regular teeth corresponding to trabecules organised in a fan system, lateral faces with continuous menianae. Pennular rims turned toward the distal direction. No palis. Hexameral symmetry not deciphered, bilateral symmetry marked by the torsion of septa and distribution of anastomoses. Endotheca made of vesicular dissepiments, columella styliform, synapticulae present, wall absent. [details]
Remark Five nominal species were created. Various species initially attributed to Thamnasteria belong to Periseris (Lathuilière 1990). The relationships (synonymy ?) with the Triassic Thamnasteriamorpha is not well established. [details]
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