Pourtalopsammia Cairns, 2001
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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1066.69697 |
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Pourtalopsammia Cairns, 2001 |
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Diagnosis.
Corallum solitary, conical to subcylindrical (sometimes scolecoid), and attached. Epitheca well developed, covering basal synapticulotheca; coenosteum distal to epitheca covered with thin, hispid ridges. Septa arranged in normal insertion pattern (not Pourtalès plan); three or four cycles of septa; axial margins of S1 highly sinuous. Columella absent. Endothecal dissepiments absent.
Type species.
Balanophyllia togata van der Horst, 1927, by monotypy.
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