Scleractinia taxon details
original description
Chevalier J-P. (1961). Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale. <em>Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France, Nouvelle Série.</em> 40(93): 1-562, pls. 1-26. [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. [details] Available for editors
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Comparison Differs from Dendrophyllia in its plocoid growth form [details]
Diagnosis Calices arranged in a plocoid manner; theca costate; Pourtalès plan present, but higher order septa anastomotic; columella well developed, ribboned; paliform lobes present. [details]
Remark This genus and family were monographed by Cairns (2001), which included a phylogenetic analysis based on morphology. Four exclusively fossil species. [details]
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