NMITA:Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America

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Favia leptophylla Verrill, 1868

Holotype: YPM 1517

Morphologic Description:

Colony size: medium (10-30cm)

Attachment of skeleton: attached

Epitheca: well-developed

Wall development between buds: always

Symmetry of bud geometry: multi-directional

Calice or valley width: small (<5mm)

Calice relief: low (<2mm)

Calicular platform shape: u-shaped

Coenosteum: medium (= valley width)

Exothecal dissepiments: present

Number of septal cycles: >3

Septal spacing (per 5mm): <6

Relative septa thickness: unequal

Relative costae thickness: equal

Continuity of costae: dis-continuous

Septal lobes: absent

Paliform lobes: present

Columella continuity: continuous

Columella width: 1/3

Endothecal dissepiments: rare

Wall structure: septothecal

Double or single wall: double

Distribution:

Recent : <10m, Abrolhos reefs, Brazil;