Agariciidae Gray, 1847

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 126

publication ID

1175­5334

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scientific name

Agariciidae Gray, 1847
status

 

Family Agariciidae Gray, 1847 View in CoL

(= Lamellofungiidae Alloiteau, 1957 ; =? Andemantastraeidae Alloiteau, 1952a )

Diagnosis. Solitary and colonial; hermatypic. Colony formation mainly by intratentacular budding. Wall absent or synapticulothecal, and usually becoming solid. Septa formed by one fan system of simple trabeculae, rarely porous, margins beaded, directly confluent between centres, united by some compound synapticulae. Endothecal dissepiments mostly absent. Columella trabecular or absent.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Agariciidae

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