Scleractinia taxon details
Hexapetalidae Eliášová, 1976 †
1439853 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1439853)
accepted
Family
Hexapetalum Eliášová, 1975 † (type by original designation)
- Genus Cuneiphyllia Eliášová, 1978 †
- Genus Blastopsammia Klunzinger, 1879 † accepted as Balanophyllia Wood, 1844 (junior synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Eliášová H. (1976). Les coraux de l'ordre Hexanthiniaria Montanaro Gallitelli, 1975, Zoantharia de Blainville, 1830 dans les calcaires de Štramberk (Tithonien, Tchécoslovaquie). <em>Vestnik Ústøedniho Ústavu Geologického.</em> 51: 357-366, pls. 1-4. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Hexapetalidae Eliášová, 1976 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1439853 on 2024-03-29
Date
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original description
Eliášová H. (1976). Les coraux de l'ordre Hexanthiniaria Montanaro Gallitelli, 1975, Zoantharia de Blainville, 1830 dans les calcaires de Štramberk (Tithonien, Tchécoslovaquie). <em>Vestnik Ústøedniho Ústavu Geologického.</em> 51: 357-366, pls. 1-4. [details]
basis of record 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]
basis of record 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]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Radial elements are compact septa sensu stricto . They are smooth, short and generally free, rarely anastomosed or contratingent, straight or curved, thinned inward or slightly claviform, often lonsdaleoid, arranged in radio-bilateral symmetry. All growth stages show an axial septum, but a transitory growth stage shows a clear hexameral superposed symmetry. The wall is comparable to the wall of Pachythecalina with a fibrous texture composed of fascicles of fibers oriented toward the center of the corallite obliquely sloping upward. Septa are inserted in the wall without continuity. During the hexameral stage, invaginations occur in the outer edge of the wall in front of septa. Intramural extracalicular increase (Taschenknospung sensu Beauvais, probably not sensu Roniewicz ?) and simple or multiple fissiparity in young corallites. Endotheca subtabular, no columella, no synapticula. [details]