original description
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Note sur la classification de la deuxième tribu de la famille des Astréides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 27: 490–497., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.29692 [details]
basis of record
Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source
Daly, M.M., Fautin D.G., Cappola V.A., 2003. Systematics of the Hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 3: 419-437.
page(s): 424-425, 427-428 [details] Available for editors 
additional source
Cairns, S.D. (1978). New genus and species of ahermatypic coral (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) from the western Atlantic. <em>Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington.</em> 9l(l): 216-221, 1(1), text-fig.
page(s): 217 [details] Available for editors 
additional source
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
Zlatarski VN, Martinez Estalella N. (1982). Les Scléractiniaires de Cuba avec des données sur les organismes associés. <em>Editions l'Académie bulgare des Sciences, Sofia.</em> 472 pp. [details]
additional source
Smith FGW. (1954). Gulf of Mexico Madreporaria. <em>Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.).</em> 55, 291-295.
page(s): 294 [details]
redescription
Cairns, S.D. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. <em>Studies on the Natural History of the Caribbean Region.</em> 75: 1-231. [details] Available for editors 
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
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Diagnosis Corallum colonial, encrusting; extracalicular budding from common basal coenosteum; costae granular; axial edges of septa finely serrate to smooth; paliform lobes before septa of penultimate cycle; columella trabecular; endotheca present. [details]
Remark The genus is need of a revision. It contains approximately 12 species, 8 of those Recent (Cairns, et al., 1999). It was recently transferred from the Rhizangiidae to the Caryophylliidae by Cairns (2000) [details]Unreviewed
Biology azooxanthellate [details]
Depth range 0-112 m [details]
Fossil range Oligocene to Recent [details]
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