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Scleractinia taxon detailsAraiophyllum Cuif, 1975 †
1440120 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1440120)
accepted
Genus
Araiophyllum triasicum Cuif, 1975 † (type by original designation)
marine,
fossil only
Cuif, J.-P. (1975). Recherches sur les Madréporaires du Trias. III — Etude des structures pennulaires chez les Madréporaires triasiques. <em>Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sciences de la Terre, Series 3.</em> 44: 45-127. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Araiophyllum Cuif, 1975 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1440120 on 2025-05-24
Date action by
original description
Cuif, J.-P. (1975). Recherches sur les Madréporaires du Trias. III — Etude des structures pennulaires chez les Madréporaires triasiques. <em>Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Sciences de la Terre, Series 3.</em> 44: 45-127. [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] additional source Vasseur, R., Lathuilière, B. (2021). Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys. <em>Geodiversitas.</em> 43(22): 1187-1291., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Comparison No similar corals are known up to now. [details]Diagnosis Phaceloid with hemispherical calices. Radial elements structurally porous. Distal border moniliform, external border with sharp granulations. Pennules encircling the trabecular body and coarsely crenulated at the border. Synapticulae present. Columella styliform from monocentric to polycentric. Endotheca dissepimental. Increase by fissiparous division. Epitheca present. [details] Remark Morphology and, especially, microstructure, descibed and illustrated by Cuif 1976, and additionally discussed in Cuif and Gautret 1993, based on Early Norian specimens.The same species was found in the Eugenia Montanaro-Gallitelli collection (University of Modena) from the Carnian of the Dolomites. [details] |
