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WoRMS taxon detailsElasmophora Alloiteau, 1958 †
 1581236 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1581236)
accepted
Genus
Elasmophora collignoni Alloiteau, 1958 † (type by original designation)
marine,
fossil only
Alloiteau J. (1958). Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar. <em>Annales Géologiques de Madagascar.</em> 25: 1-218, pls 1-38. [details]
Description The holotype of the type-species is a piece of branch of a ramose colony or a columnar plocoid coral. Radial elements are...
Description The holotype of the type-species is a piece of branch of a ramose colony or a columnar plocoid coral. Radial elements are compact free straight bicuneiform costo-septa perfectly arranged in hexameral symmetry. Extracalicular increase. Costae non confluent, more numerous than septa. S2 have generally no septal part. No columella. Endotheca made of large tabulae as well as the peritheca. The endothecal tabulae swell in the columellar space. Wall of unknown nature with a vertical inner side. No channel between the corallites. No synapticule. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Elasmophora Alloiteau, 1958 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1581236 on 2024-07-26
Date action by
original description
Alloiteau J. (1958). Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar. <em>Annales Géologiques de Madagascar.</em> 25: 1-218, pls 1-38. [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
Description The holotype of the type-species is a piece of branch of a ramose colony or a columnar plocoid coral. Radial elements are compact free straight bicuneiform costo-septa perfectly arranged in hexameral symmetry. Extracalicular increase. Costae non confluent, more numerous than septa. S2 have generally no septal part. No columella. Endotheca made of large tabulae as well as the peritheca. The endothecal tabulae swell in the columellar space. Wall of unknown nature with a vertical inner side. No channel between the corallites. No synapticule. [details]Remark Only one specimen known. [details] |
