Heliopora de Blainville, 1830

Löser, Hannes, Werner, Winfried & Darga, Robert, 2023, Middle Cenomanian coral fauna from the Roßsteinalmen (Northern Calcareous Alps, Bavaria, Southern Germany) – a revised and extended version, Zitteliana 97, pp. 89-147 : 89-147

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.3897/zitteliana.97.113796

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:D4564419-3213-4D38-96BB-E7CFE157E0F8

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13306476

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/22A7B5C2-9C09-5A32-A15F-012318C4D853

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scientific name

Heliopora de Blainville, 1830
status

 

Heliopora de Blainville, 1830

Type species.

Millepora coerulea Pallas, 1766

Description.

The genus forms small spheric, fingerlike or incrusting colonies. The corallites are circular and very regular. The septa are short. The coenosteum appears cellular with very fine pores and tiny spines, or is rarely vermiculate.

Remarks.

As explained in Hernández Morales and Löser (2018), the genus Polytremacis is a junior synonym of the extant genus Heliopora . The corallite dimensions of the species of the study area are compared in Table 1 View Table 1 .

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Cnidaria

Class

Anthozoa

Order

Scleractinia

Family

Helioporidae