Genus Scutocyclopora n. gen.

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TYPE SPECIES. — Hemicyclopora dentata López de la Cuadra & García-Gómez, 1991 .

DIAGNOSIS. — Colony encrusting, unilaminar, multiserial. Autozooid frontal shield umbonuloid, imperforate except for marginal pores aligned in rows; communication by small basal pore-chambers. Orifice with slightly protruding or non-protuberant condyles, encircled by a high, flared peristome, without oral spines. Ovicell hyperstomial, attached to distal wall of maternal zooid, not associated with a distal daughter autozooid. Ancestrula morphologically similar to succeeding autozooids, with umbonuloid frontal shield and without spines.

ETYMOLOGY. — From the Latin noun scutum: shield, in reference to the frontal shield of the ancestrula.