Pourtalopsammia Cairns, 2001

Filander, Zoleka N., Kitahara, Marcelo V., Cairns, Stephen D., Sink, Kerry J. & Lombard, Amanda T., 2021, Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from South Africa, ZooKeys 1066, pp. 1-198 : 1

publication ID	https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1066.69697
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scientific name	Pourtalopsammia Cairns, 2001
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Diagnosis.

Corallum solitary, conical to subcylindrical (sometimes scolecoid), and attached. Epitheca well developed, covering basal synapticulotheca; coenosteum distal to epitheca covered with thin, hispid ridges. Septa arranged in normal insertion pattern (not Pourtalès plan); three or four cycles of septa; axial margins of S1 highly sinuous. Columella absent. Endothecal dissepiments absent.

Type species.

Balanophyllia togata van der Horst, 1927, by monotypy.