Isopora Studer 1878
GENUS ISOPORA STUDER, 1878 Isopora Studer, 1878: 539. Type species Astrea palifera (Lamarck, 1816) [as senior synonym of Madrepora labrosa Dana, 1846 as used by Studer, (1878) as the type species]. Type locality Southern Ocean. Diagnosis Acroporidae that are cuneiform, encrusting or ramose with mult...
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10543427 http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03AB216FFFA3F657FC48FAA27C80FEC1 |
| Summary: | GENUS ISOPORA STUDER, 1878 Isopora Studer, 1878: 539. Type species Astrea palifera (Lamarck, 1816) [as senior synonym of Madrepora labrosa Dana, 1846 as used by Studer, (1878) as the type species]. Type locality Southern Ocean. Diagnosis Acroporidae that are cuneiform, encrusting or ramose with multiple axial or leading corallites, or a main axial plus supplementary axials at the tips of some branches and numerous radial corallites; coenosteum a dense arrangement of meandroid elaborated spinules; columella and dissepiments absent (Wallace et al ., 2007). Ocurrence Early Miocene (this paper) to Recent (Wallace et al ., 2012). Published as part of Santodomingo, Nadiezhda, Wallace, Carden C. & Johnson, Kenneth G., 2015, Fossils reveal a high diversity of the staghorn coral genera Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Neogene of Indonesia, pp. 677-763 in Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175 (4) on pages 753-755, DOI:10.1111/zoj.12295, http://zenodo.org/record/5339562 |
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