WoRMS taxon details
original description
Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862 [details]
original description
(of Teleiophyllia Duncan, 1864) Duncan PM. (1864). On the fossil corals of the West Indian Islands - Part II. <em>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 20: 20-45, pls. 2-5. [details]
original description
(of Podasteria Ehrenberg, 1834) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862 [details]
basis of record
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source
Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details]
additional source
Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. <em>Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors [request]
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]
additional source
Cary, L. R. (1911). A study of pedal laceration in actinians. Biological Bulletin, 20(2): 81-108 page(s): 95, 96 [details]
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Comparison Differs from Diploria in having well developed septal lobes. [details]
Diagnosis Corallum uniserial meandroid; theca usually septothecal but sometimes parathecal; septa having tricorne teeth oriented perpendicular to the septal plane; septal faces with spiked granules organized in lines; paliform lobes well-developed; columella continuous, trabecular, teeth similar in size and shape to septal teeth; endotheca tabular; zooxanthellate. [details]
Remark Fossil species monographed in Budd and Johnson (1998); approximately nine species, seven of which are known as fossils. For Recent species, see Matthai (1928). [details]
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