Cyphastrea, Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848

Salimi, Parisa Alidoost, Mostafavi, Pargol Ghavam, Chen, Chaolun Allen, Fatemi, Seyed Mohammad Reza & Pichon, Michel, 2018, Microphysogobio bicolor, Zoological Studies 57 (56), pp. 1-34 : 12-13

Cyphastrea serailia ( Forskål, 1775)

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Synonym: Madrepora serailia Forskål, 1775; Cyphastrea danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857; Cyphastrea brueggemanni Quelch, 1886; Cyphastrea suvadivae Gardiner, 1904; Cyphastrea conferta Nemenzo, 1959; Cyphastrea laticostata Nemenzo, 1959; Cyphastrea incrustans Klunzinger, 1879; Cyphastrea maldivensis Gardiner, 1904.

Material examined: Abu-Musa Island ( ZUTC 6597).

Other Material: Nay-Band Bay ( ZUTC 6598).

Description: Colony is submassive with numerous irregular short columnar processes extending mostly vertically. Corallites formation by extratentacular budding and arrangement is plocoid. Corallite aperture is slightly protruding, flush with corallum surface or immersed, outline circular. Corallites diameter 2 to 3 mm. Septa in 2 markedly distinct orders, with 12 primary and 12 secondary septa (in a majority of calices), Primary septa are exert above the wall margin and reach the columella. Secondary septa reduced (and limited to a ridge on the inside of the wall). Septal margins serrated. Costae are equal or un-equal and poorly developed. Coenosteum not heavily ornamented but a few granules present. Columella is loosely trabecular.

Distribution: Widespread in the Persian Gulf, Red Sea and western Indo-Pacific.

Figures

Fig. 12. (a-b) Cyphastrea serailia from Abu-Musa Island; (c-d) close-up of corallites, coenosteum and septal arrangement. Scale bar = 1 mm. © 2018 Academia Sinica, Taiwan