Tubastraea Lesson, 1830
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5047.1.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5533629 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/7D5BA03C-FFC4-9049-FF5C-FB685767FA7D |
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Genus Tubastraea Lesson, 1830 View in CoL
Diagnosis of genus Tubastraea (emended after Cairns 2001 and Cairns & Kitahara 2012)
Colonial coralla firmly attached and encrusting; septa cycles hexamerally arranged and typically inserted with spongy columella; septa arranged /not arranged in a Pourtalès plan; corallum with a rough texture; colony developing from a common basal coenosteum by budding, with clear connection among polyps; columella small to moderate in size and lacks an epitheca.
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