Agariciidae
Gray, 1847, p. 128
Synonyms
Diagnosis
Corallum colonial and attached; corallum shape encrusting, foliose, massive, columnar, branching, different shapes can occur in the same colony; budding intratentacular; synapticulotheca; calical arrangement thamnasterioid, cerioid, plocoid, meandroid; radial elements connected by synapticulae; radial elements are compact septa or bisepta with ornamented margins; septa fuse towards the centre of the calice and form fan-like groups, or not; septal faces ornamented; pali absent; endothecal dissepiments present or absent; columella present or absent; pseudocoenosteum present in non cerioid genera; collines present or absent; polyp mesenteries continuous between polyps in non cerioid genera.
Contains
- Hydnophorastraea Beauvais, 1982
- Lamellofungia Alloiteau, 1952, p. 655
- Maeandrella Oppenheim, 1930, p. 380
- Morphastrea Orbigny, 1850, vol. 2, p. 183
- Ogilviastraea Oppenheim, 1930, p. 355
- Vaughanoseris Wells, 1934
This page has been in preparation since 02-Oct-2009 17:15
This version was contributed by Danwei Huang on 27-Sep-2012 20:37.
Page authors are: Francesca Benzoni Danwei Huang. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.
The editor is: Ann Budd
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