Flabellidae Bourne, 1905

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 86

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1175­5334

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5241450

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scientific name

Flabellidae Bourne, 1905
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Family Flabellidae Bourne, 1905 View in CoL

Diagnosis. Solitary, fixed or free; ahermatypic; neotenic. Wall epithecal, usually smooth, thickened internally by stereome. Septa compact, nonexsert, formed by one fan system of simple trabeculae, smooth marginally, smooth or granulated laterally. Pali, synapticulae, and dissepiments absent. Paliform lobes present in one genus. Columella usually rudimentary or absent, may be lamellar or papillose.

Remarks. The diagnosis of this family is based on the one given by Cairns (1989) who provided detailed discussions regarding the Family Flabellidae .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Flabellidae

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