Leptastrea, Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848
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https://doi.org/ 10.6620/ZS.2018.57-56 |
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Felipe |
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Leptastrea View in CoL transversa Klunzinger, 1879
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Synonym: Leptastrea transversa Klunzinger, 1879.
Material examined: Abu-Musa Island ( ZUTC 6596).
Description: Colony is small and encrusting. Corallites formation by extratentacular budding and arrangement is plocoid. Corallites diameter 3 mm. Septa are in 2 orders with 24-29 septa (in a few corallites up to 42) and slightly exert above the wall. Primary septa is reaching the columella, secondary septa is short and limited to wall. Septal margins are horizontal at first near the wall, then descending vertically and rapidly towards the calice center. Margins slightly dentate, with a paliform lobe weakly developed in some corallites. Columella trabecular and trabecular often fused. Costae absent. Coenosteum is smooth and distance between adjacent corallites variable.
Distribution: Common in the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and Indo-Pacific.
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