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Scleractinia taxon detailsPolyphylloseris de Fromentel, 1857 †
 1439767 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1439767)
accepted
Genus
Polyphyllastrea convexa d'Orbigny, 1850 † accepted as Polyphylloseris convexa (d'Orbigny, 1850) † (type by subsequent designation)
Mastophyllia Felix, 1891 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine,
fossil only
Fromentel E. de. (1857). Description des Polypiers fossiles de l'étage Nèocomien. <em>Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Historiques et Naturelles de l'Yonne, Auxerre (Perriquet et Rouillé).</em> 78 pp. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Polyphylloseris de Fromentel, 1857 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1439767 on 2025-06-01
Date action by
original description
Fromentel E. de. (1857). Description des Polypiers fossiles de l'étage Nèocomien. <em>Bulletin de la Société des Sciences Historiques et Naturelles de l'Yonne, Auxerre (Perriquet et Rouillé).</em> 78 pp. [details]
original description (of Mastophyllia Felix, 1891 †) Felix, J. (1891). Versteinerungen aus der mexicanischen Jura- und Kreideformation. <em>Palaeontographica.</em> 37: 140-199, pls. 22-30. [details] basis of record Eliášová, H. (2015). Genres nouveaux et peu connus de coraux Scléractiniaires des calcaires de Štramberk (Jurassique supérieur de République tchèque). <em>Revue de Paléobiologie, Genève.</em> 34 (1): 59-76. [details] additional source Wells JW. (1936). The nomenclature and type species of some genera of recent and fossil corals. <em>American Journal of Science.</em> 31: 97-134., available online at https://ajsonline.org/article/61464 [details] additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Colonial, thamnasterioid to subplocoid. Gemmation intracalicinal. Corallites elevated, appearing mammelonate. Septa confluent, regularly perforated, pennular laterally. Columella trabecular. Synapticulae abundant. Endothecal dissepiments vesicular, numerous. [details]Type designation Subsequent designation by Wells (1936) [details] |
