Scleractinia taxon details
Somalica Zuffardi-Comerci, 1932 †
1438034 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1438034)
accepted
Genus
Somalica aenigmatica Parona & Zuffardi-Comerci, 1932 † (type by original designation)
Saxuligyra Eliášová, 1991 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Somalica maior (Eliášová, 1991) †
- Species Somalica minor (Eliášová, 1991) †
- Species Somalica aenigmatica Parona & Zuffardi-Comerci, 1932 † (uncertain > unassessed)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Zuffardi-Comerci R. (1932). Corallari-Zoantari fossili del Miocene della “Collina di Torino”. <em>Palaeontographia Italica.</em> 33: 85-132. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Somalica Zuffardi-Comerci, 1932 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1438034 on 2025-05-09
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original description
Zuffardi-Comerci R. (1932). Corallari-Zoantari fossili del Miocene della “Collina di Torino”. <em>Palaeontographia Italica.</em> 33: 85-132. [details]
original description (of Saxuligyra Eliášová, 1991 †) Eliášová H. (1991). Rhipidogyridés (Scléractiniaires) du Crétacé de Bohême (Cénomanien supérieur – Turonien inférieur, Tchécoslovaquie). <em>Vestnik Ustredního ústavu geologického.</em> 66(3): 163-172, pls. 1-8. [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]
original description (of Saxuligyra Eliášová, 1991 †) Eliášová H. (1991). Rhipidogyridés (Scléractiniaires) du Crétacé de Bohême (Cénomanien supérieur – Turonien inférieur, Tchécoslovaquie). <em>Vestnik Ustredního ústavu geologického.</em> 66(3): 163-172, pls. 1-8. [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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Colonial, massive, cerioid. Gemmation intracalicinal-septal. Septa compact, finely dentate laterally. Columella absent. Endothecal dissepiments abundant, vesicular. Wall thick, pruvostastreoid (=formed by bent peripheral ends of septa). [details]Remark Parona and Zuffardi-Comerci, 1932, described the taxon Somalica from the Jurassic of Somalia as incertae sedis but compared it with stromatoporoid genera. However, in having a cerioid appearance, compact, thick and pruvoastraeids septa, and numerous vesicular endothecal dissepiments, the illustrations and description strongly suggest that it represents a scleractinian coral of the rhipidogyrids (Baron-Szabo, 2002, p. 86). [details]
