Scleractinia taxon details
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Comparison In general corallite architecture, this non trabecular genus resembles trabecular Kompsasteria. [details]
Description Morphology and microstructure described and illustrated in Roniewicz 1989:135, pl.41,fig.3,4; pl.42,fig.5,6; pl.43,fig.3. [details]
Diagnosis Phaceloid to cerioid. Increase extracalicular. Wall formed of fibrous stereome organized into lamellae and squame. Radial elements spiniform or partly platelike; septal spines arranged into rows on the internal surface of the wall. Septal spines are formed of single bunches of subparallel fibres originated in the wall, and additionally, of prolongations of the wall squamae. Endotheca tabuloid. [details]
Remark Only type species is known. [details]
Status In the literature it was described also under the name of Michelinia de Koninck, 1841 [details]
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