Scleractinia taxon details
Reussopsammia Wells, 1937 †
1439902 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1439902)
accepted
Genus
Stereopsammia granulosa Reuss, 1864 † accepted as Reussopsammia granulosa (Reuss, 1864) † (type by original designation)
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. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Reussopsammia Wells, 1937 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1439902 on 2026-07-08
Date
action
by
original description
Wells JW. (1937). New genera of Mesozoic and Cenozoic corals. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 11: 73-77. [details]
additional source Baron-Szabo, R.C. & S.D. Cairns. (2019). Chapter 14: Part F, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 14:Systematic Descriptions of the Scleractinia Family Dendrophylliidae. <em>Treatise Online, Part F, Revised.</em> 119: 1-33., available online at https://doi.org/10.17161/to.v0i0.9825 [details] Available for editors
additional source Baron-Szabo, R.C. & S.D. Cairns. (2019). Chapter 14: Part F, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 14:Systematic Descriptions of the Scleractinia Family Dendrophylliidae. <em>Treatise Online, Part F, Revised.</em> 119: 1-33., available online at https://doi.org/10.17161/to.v0i0.9825 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Comparison Differs from Stichopsammia in having a normal arrangement of septa and lacking a columella. [details]Diagnosis Corallum produced by polystomadeal intratentacular budding resulting in flabello-meandroid arrangement of calices; costae granular; epitheca absent; septa arranged normally; columella absent. [details]
Remark This genus and family were monographed by Cairns (2001), which included a phylogenetic analysis based on morphology. Monotypic. [details]
