Astreopora De Blainville, 1830

Wallace, Carden C., Turak, Emre & DeVantier, Lyndon, 2011, Novel characters in a conservative coral genus: three new species of Astreopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) from West Papua, Journal of Natural History 45 (31 - 32), pp. 1905-1924 : 1909

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1080/00222933.2011.573098
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4651908
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03E987CC-8162-FF98-FE1F-A5D90216FB92
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scientific name	Astreopora De Blainville, 1830
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Genus Astreopora De Blainville, 1830 View in CoL

Colony massive, encrusting, plating or ramose. Axial corallite rarely present. Columella absent, but pseudo-columella, formed by trabecular extensions of the septa, may be present. Coenosteum reticular, formed by outwardly inclined trabeculae, with spinose surface. Dissepiments tabular.

Occurrence: Upper Cretaceous to Recent; Europe, Caribbean and Indo-Pacific.

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Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Class	Anthozoa
Order	Scleractinia
Family	Acroporidae

Astreopora De Blainville, 1830

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