Fungiidae Dana, 1846

Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C., 2008, Dendrophylliina, Caryophylliina, Fungiina, Microsolenina, and Stylinina, Zootaxa 1952, pp. 1-244 : 97

Family Fungiidae Dana, 1846

(=? Funginellidae Alloiteau, 1952a ; = Asteroseriidae Alloiteau, 1952a ;? Cyclastraeidae Alloiteau, 1952a )

Diagnosis. Solitary and colonial, fixed or free, mostly hermatypic. Solitary corallites discoidal or elongateoval, aboral surface flat or concave. Colonies discoidal or elongate-oval, free or foliaceous and fixed. Colony formation by incomplete intratentacular polystomodaeal budding. Wall synapticulothecal, often secondarily septothecal or thickened. Septa numerous, fenestrate in early stages, perforate or solid, composed of a single fan system of compound trabeculae producing simple or compound marginal dentations, laterally united by stout compound synapticulae. Axis of trabecular divergence horizontal in ephebic stage. Costae continuous or broken into spinose projections. Columella trabecular, feeble. Dissepiments absent. Epitheca only in early anthoblast stage. Homeomorphic with Cunnolitidae .