| Summary: | Figure 12. Moseleya Quelch, 1884, has discrete corallites that may be polymorphic, with fused walls, large (> 15 mm) and high-relief (> 6 mm) calices, and septa in ≥ 4 cycles (≥ 48 septa). Septal teeth are tall (> 0.6 mm) with medium spacing (0.3–1.0 mm), unequally shaped between first- and third-order septa, equally sized between wall and septum, and palisade interarea. Walls formed by dominant paratheca and partial septotheca, with strong costa centre clusters. (A–F) Moseleya latistellata Quelch, 1884, type and only living species of Moseleya; macromorphology, holotype NHMUK 1886.12.9.158, Wednesday Island, Torres Strait, Australia (A; photo by H. Taylor); micromorphology (scanning electron microscopy; B, E) and microstructure (transverse thin section; C, F), hypotype MTQ G61909, Magnetic Island, Queensland, Australia; macromorphology, hypotype MTQ G39700, Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia (D). Published as part of Huang, Danwei, Arrigoni, Roberto, Benzoni, Francesca, Fukami, Hironobu, Knowlton, Nancy, Smith, Nathan D., Stolarski, Jarosław, Chou, Loke Ming & Budd, Ann F., 2016, Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia), pp. 436-481 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178 (3) on page 470, DOI:10.1111/zoj.12391, http://zenodo.org/record/10109821
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