Porites Link, 1807

Benzoni, Francesca & Stefani, Fabrizio, 2012, Porites fontanesii, a new species of hard coral (Scleractinia, Poritidae) from the southern Red Sea, the Gulf of Tadjoura, and the Gulf of Aden, and its phylogenetic relationships within the genus, Zootaxa 3447, pp. 56-68 : 58

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.282163

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6173750

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scientific name

Porites Link, 1807
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Genus Porites Link, 1807 View in CoL

Characters of the genus. Colonial, coralla encrusting, submassive, massive or ramose. Skeleton porous in all its parts resulting from growth and fusion of trabeculae and synapticulae. Corallites small, calices diameter between 0.5 and 2 mm. Septa 12 in number, arranged in four lateral pairs, a ventral triplet, and a dorsal septum opposed to the triplet. Septa connected by visible synapticulae and bearing denticles on their margin. Columella present or absent. Pali usually present. Coenosteum present or absent.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Poritidae

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