Scleractinia taxon details
Siderocoenia Beauvais, 1982 †
1451999 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1451999)
accepted
Genus
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Beauvais M. (1982). Révision Systématique des Madréporaires des couches de Gosau (Crétacé supérieur, Autriche). 5 vols. <em>Paris (Comptoir géologique). - Trav. Lab. Paleont. Univ. P. & M. Curie. 1-710. Paris.</em> [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Siderocoenia Beauvais, 1982 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1451999 on 2025-05-08
original description
Beauvais M. (1982). Révision Systématique des Madréporaires des couches de Gosau (Crétacé supérieur, Autriche). 5 vols. <em>Paris (Comptoir géologique). - Trav. Lab. Paleont. Univ. P. & M. Curie. 1-710. Paris.</em> [details]
basis of record Löser, H. (2016). Early evolution of the family Siderastraeidae (Scleractinia; Cretaceous-extant). <em>Paläontologische Zeitschrift.</em> 90 (1): 1-17., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-016-0292-x [details]
basis of record Löser, H. (2016). Early evolution of the family Siderastraeidae (Scleractinia; Cretaceous-extant). <em>Paläontologische Zeitschrift.</em> 90 (1): 1-17., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-016-0292-x [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Like Pironastrea d'Archiardi but differs from it by also showing extracalicinal budding and a wall-type that can be more solid than in Pironastrea. [details]Remark Beauvais (1982, vol. 2, p. 219-220), created the genus Siderocoenia. According to him, it is characterized by subthamnasterioid polyp integration; intracalicinal budding; subcompact and subconfluent to confluent costo-septa; abundant synapticulae; thin dissepiments; weakly developed parietal columella; synpaticulo-septothecal wall which occurs deeper in the corallum; and septa that consist of simple and compound trabeculae. However, in addition to these features, the holotype of the type species (Thamnaraea lithodes Felix) shows both corallites that are also arranged in short meandroid series which generally form tholifom collines and corallites that were formed extracalicinal. Considering all these features, the genus Siderocoenia closely corresponds to the genus Pironastrea d'Archiardi, 1875, but differs from the latter by also showing extracalicinal budding and a wall-type that can be more solid than in Pironastrea d'Archiardi. Therefore, the genus Siderocoenia is placed as a subgenus of Pironastrea d'Archiardi. [details]
