WoRMS taxon details
original description
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 3. Monographie des eupsammides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 10: 65-114, pls. 5-9. [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 [request]
additional source
Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]
redescription
Cairns, S.D. (2001). A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 615: 1-75., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.615 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Comparison Very similar to Schizopsammia but having some tristomadeal budding, a basal epitheca, and some endotheca. [details]
Diagnosis Corallum forming small arborescent colonies by di- and tristomadeal intratentacular budding; calices often elongate; epitheca present; theca costate; septa in Pourtalès plan; columella trabecular. [details]
Remark This genus and family were monographed by Cairns (2001), which included a phylogenetic analysis based on morphology. Five species, all fossil. [details]From other sources
Fossil range Middle Eocene to Middle Oligocene [details]
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