original description
Cairns, S.D. (1978). New genus and species of ahermatypic coral (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) from the western Atlantic. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 9l(l): 216-221, 1(1), text-fig. [details] Available for editors
basis of record
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source
Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
redescription
Cairns, S.D. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. <em>Studies on the Natural History of the Caribbean Region.</em> 75: 1-231. [details] Available for editors
redescription
Cairns, S.D. (1995). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Memoir.</em> 103: 1-210. [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Corallum colonial, forming small phaceloid colonies by extracalicular budding; base polycyclic; paliform lobes present before penultimate septal cycle and occasionally first and second septal cycle; columella spongy, lamellar or fascicular; endothecal dissepiments present. [details]
Remark Six exclusively Recent species [details]From other sources
Biology azooxanthellate [details]
Depth range 1-539 m [details]
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