Isopora Studer 1878
- Dataset
- Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Scleractinia
- family
- Acroporidae
- genus
- Isopora
diagnosis
Diagnosis. Acroporidae with cuneiform, encrusting, or ramose colony form, with multiple axial or leading corallites, or some branches with more than a single axial corallite per branch, and numerous radial corallites. Coenosteum with elaborated meandroid spinules; columella and dissepiments absent. Polyps hermaphrodite, with oocytes and testes borne on separate mesenteries, mature oocytes contained in stalked extensions of the mesenterial filaments. Reproduction by release of sperm followed by internal fertilization and larval development. Late Miocene to Recent.
discussion
Further literature. Wallace et al. (2007), Budd & Wallace (2008), Budd & Wallace (2008)
materials_examined
Type locality. Southern Ocean (holotype MNHN-Z 301 a).
Name
- Homonyms
- Isopora Studer 1878
- Isopora