Isophyllia

Isophyllia
Isophyllia sinuosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Subphylum: Anthozoa
Class: Hexacorallia
Order: Scleractinia
Family: Mussidae
Genus: Isophyllia
Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
Species

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Synonyms
  • Isophyllastraea
  • Isophyllastrea Matthai, 1928
  • Mussa (Isophyllia) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851

Isophyllia is a genus of stony coral in the subfamily Mussinae of the family Mussidae.

Characteristics

Isophyllia is a colonial coral. Budding is always intracalicular, occurring inside the oral disc of the polyp, within the whorl of tentacles. The corallites are meandroid, that is, they are linked in a short series of up to five centres. The individual corallites are medium-sized, being 2.5 to 5 mm (0.1 to 0.2 in) in diameter and up to 6 mm (0.2 in) high. There are three or more cycles of septa in each corallite, all equal in size. A narrow costate coenosteum separates the corallites.

Species

The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species :

References

  1. 1 2 Hoeksema, Bert (2018). "Isophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
  2. ↑ Budd, Ann F.; Fukami, Hironobu; Smith, Nathan D.; Knowlton, Nancy (2012). "Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 166 (3): 465–529. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x.