Cyphastrea, Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Baird, Andrew H., Hoogenboom, Mia O. & Huang, Danwei, 2017, Cyphastreasalae, a new species of hard coral from Lord Howe Island, Australia (Scleractinia, Merulinidae), ZooKeys 662, pp. 49-66 : 50

Cyphastrea, Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Genus characters.

Corals are colonial by extracalicular budding. The coenosteum is typically spinose and corallites are small (<4 mm diameter) with low relief (<3 mm). Septa are in at most three cycles and paliform lobes are usually present. Septal teeth are multiaxial, low (<0.3 mm) and closely set (<0.3 mm). Walls are formed primarily by septotheca. Costa and septum centre clusters are weak, there is between 0.3-0.6 mm between costa clusters and <0.3 mm between septum clusters.