Pavona Lamarck, 1801

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 128

Genus Pavona Lamarck, 1801

(= Pseudastraea Reuss, 1864, Type species. Pseudastraea columnaris Reuss, 1864, Oligocene of Slovenia [Gornji Grad])

(= Hydnophorabacia d’Achiardi, 1875 , Type species. Hydnophorabacia variabilis d’Achiardi, 1875 , Eocene of Italy [Friul])

(= Reussastraea d'Achiardi, 1875 , Type species. Reussastraea granulosa d'Achiardi, 1875 , Eocene of Italy [Friul]).

Type species. Madrepora cistata Ellis & Solander, 1786 , Recent , Red Sea .

Diagnosis. Colonial, variably thamnasterioid-submeandroid, hydnophoroid, submassive to foliaceous. Gemmation intracalicinal, often resulting in calicinal series separated by generally tectiform collines. Costosepta compact to subcompact, confluent or nonconfluent between corallites of adjacent series, confluent between corallites of same series. Corallite wall absent in same corallite series, synapticulothecal between series, often becoming solid, well-developed. Columella trabecular.