Endopsammia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848

Filander, Zoleka N., Kitahara, Marcelo V., Cairns, Stephen D., Sink, Kerry J. & Lombard, Amanda T., 2021, Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from South Africa, ZooKeys 1066, pp. 1-198 : 1

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1066.69697

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scientific name

Endopsammia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848
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Endopsammia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848 View in CoL

Diagnosis.

Corallum solitary, conical to subcylindrical, and firmly attached. Epitheca thin, covering most of the synapticulotheca. Underlying epitheca weakly costate, covered with low granules. Septa arranged in normal insertion pattern in ≤ four cycles. Axial margins of all septa coarsely dentate to laciniate. Columella spongy, non-discrete. Tabular endothecal dissepiments present in elongate coralla.

Type species.

Endopsammia philippensis Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848, by monotypy.