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Porites Link 1807
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Genus Porites Link, 1807
Characters of the genus. Colonial, coralla encrusting, submassive, massive or ramose. Skeleton porous in all its parts resulting from growth and fusion of trabeculae and synapticulae. Corallites small, calices diameter between 0.5 and 2 mm. Septa 12 in number, arranged in four lateral pairs, a ventral triplet, and a dorsal septum opposed to the triplet. Septa connected by visible synapticulae and bearing denticles on their margin. Columella present or absent. Pali usually present. Coenosteum present or absent.
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Published as part of Benzoni, Francesca & Stefani, Fabrizio, 2012, Porites fontanesii, a new species of hard coral (Scleractinia, Poritidae) from the southern Red Sea, the Gulf of Tadjoura, and the Gulf of Aden, and its phylogenetic relationships within the genus, pp. 56-68 in Zootaxa 3447 on page 58, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.282163
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- Journal article: 10.5281/zenodo.282163 (DOI)
- Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/FFC5FFD5FFBF9B10FF9DC13DB32FFFC5 (URL)
- Journal article: http://zoobank.org/F8E02D36-32D0-40CF-801D-F02FC2A7F3D0 (URL)
Biodiversity
- Family
- Poritidae
- Genus
- Porites
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
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- Taxon rank
- genus
- Taxonomic concept label
- Porites Link, 1807 sec. Benzoni & Stefani, 2012