Chelidonisididae, Saucier & France & Watling, 2021

Saucier, Esprit Heestand, France, Scott C. & Watling, Les, 2021, Toward a revision of the bamboo corals: Part 3, deconstructing the Family Isididae, Zootaxa 5047 (3), pp. 247-272 : 267

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5047.3.2
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10553364
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scientific name	Chelidonisididae
status	fam. nov.

Treatment

Family Chelidonisididae View in CoL n. family

Type genus: Chelidonisis Studer, 1890

Diagnosis. Modified from Bayer and Stefani (1987a). Colony branched in one plane, occasionally anastomosing, branching from distal end of internodes; internodes longitudinally ridged, the ridges armed with spines; polyps forming hemispherical or bluntly conical verrucae distributed mostly on two sides of the branches in the plane of ramification; coenenchyme thin; sclerites predominantly in the form of 6-radiates and with small tuberculate plates in the tentacles.

Included genera: Chelidonisis Studer, 1890 .

Remarks. See the Remarks under the family Isididae .