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WoRMS taxon detailsPlesiofavia Alloiteau, 1957 †
1581157 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1581157)
accepted
Genus
Phyllocoenia dubia de Fromentel, 1857 † (type by original designation)
marine,
fossil only
Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. <em>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.</em> pp 462. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Plesiofavia Alloiteau, 1957 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1581157 on 2024-07-26
Date action by
original description
Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. <em>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.</em> pp 462. [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]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Remark Based on re-investigation of the type material Alloiteau (1957) postulated a generic concept for Ovalastrea different from the one which had been previously introduced by Vaughan and Wells (1943), and Wells (1956). The main differences between the two concepts are in the septal and thecal development (according to Alloiteau septa are compact and not perforated, and the wall is septothecal and parathecal, but not synapticulothecal). Re-study of the holotype of the type species of Ovalastrea (Astrea caryophylloides Goldfuss; IPB no. 221, Goldfuss collection) in 2005 (see discussion in Baron-Szabo, 2014) revealed the following characteristics for Ovalastrea: Colonial, massive, plocoid, sub-cerioid, sub-meandroid. Gemmation generally intracalicinal, forming short series; extracalicinal budding present in a few places; costosepta compact, nonconfluent, dentate distally, granulated laterally; a small number of paliform structures irregularly present; columella spongy-papillose or lamellar; wall parathecal to septoparathecal, a small number of synapticulae seem to be present; endothecal and exothecal dissepiments very thin, abundant. Because the genus Plesiofavia Alloiteau, 1957, closely corresponds to Ovalastrea, they are considered synonymous. For a different view on the taxonomic position of Ovalastrea, see discussion at Ovalastrea on corallosphere. [details]
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