Isopora, STUDER, 1878

Santodomingo, Nadiezhda, Wallace, Carden C. & Johnson, Kenneth G., 2015, Fossils reveal a high diversity of the staghorn coral genera Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Neogene of Indonesia, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175 (4), pp. 677-763 : 753-755

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1111/zoj.12295
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10543427
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scientific name	Isopora
status

Treatment

GENUS ISOPORA STUDER, 1878 View in CoL

Isopora Studer, 1878: 539 View in CoL .

Type species

Astrea palifera ( Lamarck, 1816) [as senior synonym of Madrepora labrosa Dana, 1846 as used by Studer, (1878) as the type species].

Type locality

Southern Ocean .

Diagnosis

Acroporidae that are cuneiform, encrusting or ramose with multiple axial or leading corallites, or a main axial plus supplementary axials at the tips of some branches and numerous radial corallites; coenosteum a dense arrangement of meandroid elaborated spinules; columella and dissepiments absent ( Wallace et al., 2007).

Ocurrence

Early Miocene (this paper) to Recent ( Wallace et al., 2012).