Pavona Lamarck, 1801

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 128

publication ID

1175­5334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5241548

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scientific name

Pavona Lamarck, 1801
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Genus Pavona Lamarck, 1801 View in CoL

(= Pseudastraea Reuss, 1864, Type species. Pseudastraea columnaris Reuss, 1864, Oligocene of Slovenia [Gornji Grad])

(= Hydnophorabacia d’Achiardi, 1875 , Type species. Hydnophorabacia variabilis d’Achiardi, 1875 , Eocene of Italy [Friul])

(= Reussastraea d'Achiardi, 1875 , Type species. Reussastraea granulosa d'Achiardi, 1875 , Eocene of Italy [Friul]).

Type species. Madrepora cistata Ellis & Solander, 1786 , Recent , Red Sea .

Diagnosis. Colonial, variably thamnasterioid-submeandroid, hydnophoroid, submassive to foliaceous. Gemmation intracalicinal, often resulting in calicinal series separated by generally tectiform collines. Costosepta compact to subcompact, confluent or nonconfluent between corallites of adjacent series, confluent between corallites of same series. Corallite wall absent in same corallite series, synapticulothecal between series, often becoming solid, well-developed. Columella trabecular.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Agariciidae

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