WoRMS taxon details
original description
Chevalier, J.P., Beauvais, L. (1987). Ordre des Scleractiniaires in: Cnidaires, anthozoaires. <em>Traite de Zoologie.</em> Tome III, Fascicule 3: 403-764. [details]
basis of record
Benzoni, F., Stefani, F., Pichon, M., Galli, P. 2010. The name game: morpho-molecular species boundaries in the genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 421-456. [details]
additional source
Benzoni, F., Stefani, F., Stolarski, J., Pichon, M., Mitta, G., Galli, P. 2007. Debating phylogenetic relationships of the scleractinian Psammocora: molecular and morphological evidences. Contributions to Zoology 76: 35-54., available online at http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/cgi/t/text/get-pdf?c=ctz;idno=7601a04 [details]
additional source
Stefani F, Benzoni F, Pichon M, Cancelliere C, Galli P. (2008). A multidisciplinary approach to the definition of species boundaries in branching species of the coral genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 37(1): 71-91. [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Corallum colonial and attached, free living colonies (coralliths) are common in some species; corallum shape encrusting, foliose, massive, columnar, branching; budding intratentacular and extratentacular; synapticulotheca; costae absent; entosepta and exosepta alternate and fuse forming fan-like groups of septa; enclosed entosepta are formed by the fusion and division of endo and exosepta; septa perforated; septal margins and faces ornamented; entosepta and enclosed entosepta mostly petaloid and with exsert distal ends; pali absent; endothecal dissepiments sparse; columella present; series of calices surrounded by rows of enclosed entosepta and, ultimately, by the same perforated wall can form; collines I present or absent; coenosteum absent; an entoseptum bears a tentacle, an exoseptum does not; an enclosed entoseptum bears an extrapolypal tentacle. [details]
Status Recently used by Benzoni, F., Arrigoni, R., Stefani, F., Reijnen, B.T., Montano, S. and Hoeksema, B.W. (2012) Phylogenetic position and taxonomy of Cycloseris explanulata and C. wellsi (Scleractinia: Fungiidae): lost mushroom corals find their way home. Contributions to Zoology, 81, 125–146. [details]
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