CC species number = 25

Photograph:  Photo is a SEM of corallite with scale bar equal to 1.0 mm.

Synonyms: None.

Morphologic Description:

Colony Form: plocoid
Colony Shape: branching; caespitose
Colony Size: branches 0.5-2 cm thick
Corallite Spacing: 2-3 mm
Budding Type: extramural
Corallite Diameter: radial corallites 0.8-1.0, not variable
Calical Surface Shape: nariform, circular
Axial and Radial Corallite Characteristics:strong axial corallites, radials oriented upwards, in rows
Coenosteum Width: moderate
Internal Coenosteum Texture: low porosity
Coenosteum Surface: costate with spinules
Relative Septum Thickness: moderate
Lobes: none
Columella Structure: absent
Wall Structure: septothecal
Wall Characteristics: 0.2-0.4 mm thick

Holotype:

? Museum d'Historie Naturelle, Paris (Locality: "Les mers d'Amerique". Recent).

Distribution:

Recent: Caribbean