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Fungioidea

Stephen D. Cairns
Classification after Wells (1956). Families followed by a cross ( ) are exclusively fossil.
Containing group: Fungiina

Introduction

Colony formation commonly by intratentacular budding. Corallite wall synapticulothecate, secondarily septothecal. Septa formed of compound trabeculae, united by mostly compound synapticulae. Septal edges dentate; coralla solitary and colonial.

This page is still under construction and at this point merely serves as transportation to lower level taxa.

References

Wells, J. W. 1956. Scleractinia. Pp. F328-F444 In: Moore, R. C. (editor) Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part F: Coelenterata. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.

About This Page
Creation of this page was supported by US National Science Foundation grants DEB95-21819 and DEB 99-78106 (in the program PEET - Partnerships to Enhance Expertise in Taxonomy) to Daphne G. Fautin, grant DEB99-78086 (in the program PEET) to Stephen D. Cairns, and grant OCE 00-03970 (in NOPP, the National Oceanographic Partnership Program) to D.G.F. and Robert W. Buddemeier.

Technical assistance was rendered by Adorian Ardelean.


Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C., USA

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