Deltocyathus Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848

Filander, Zoleka N., Kitahara, Marcelo V., Cairns, Stephen D., Sink, Kerry J. & Lombard, Amanda T., 2021, Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from South Africa, ZooKeys 1066, pp. 1-198 : 1

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1066.69697

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:133CE040-A5AF-44F1-BC9A-558C2F06A8AA

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C931A9A6-E32F-556A-FED5-F46F9652C3C7

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scientific name

Deltocyathus Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848
status

 

Deltocyathus Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848

Diagnosis.

Solitary, discoidal to patellate, usually free. Septotheca costate. Septa arranged in 4-5 cycles, only S1 being independent. Pali before all but last cycle. Axial margins of higher cycle pali join to faces of adjacent septa (deltas). Columella papillose.

Type species.

Turbinolia italica Michelotti, 1838, by monotypy. 181