Meandrina

Meandrina Lamarck, 1801

Morphologic Description: Meandroid; intramural budding; solid coenosteum; smooth septal margins; lamellar columella; septothecal wall structure.

Morphologic Diagnosis: Colony Form: meandroid or flabelloid, Colony Shape: massive or platy, Budding: intramural, Columella: lamellar, Corallite Size: large(10 - 20mm), Wall Structure: septothecal, Lobes: none.

I. Meandrina s.s. species with more than one valley.

Species:

Meandrina braziliensis (Milne Edwards & Haime 1849); CC Species #138 (extant)

Meandrina meandrites (Linnaeus 1767); CC Species #139 (extant)

Meandrina sp.A; CC Species #139.5 (extant)

 

II. Placocyathus Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848: species with only one valley; freeliving.

Species:

• M. (P.) alveolus Duncan, 1863; CC species #140 (extinct).
• M. (P.) barretti Duncan, 1863; CC species #141 (extinct).
• M. (P.) costatus Duncan, 1864; CC species #142 (extinct).
• M. (P.) trinitatis Vaughan in Vaughan & Hoffmeister,1 926; CC species #143 (extinct).
• M. (P.) variabilis Duncan, 1864; CC species #144 (extinct).

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Last updated on 16 September 2004 - has

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