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Millepora
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Hydrozoa
Order:
Milleporina
Family:
Milleporidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Millepora LINNÉ, 1758
Type Species:
M. alcicornis, SD M.EDW.H., 1850
Images
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Fig. 77,1b,c. M. tenera BOSCHMA, Rec.; 1b, surface of specimen from C.Pac. (Yap) showing 2 cyclosystems and 2 ampullae, X20; 1c, long. sec. of specimen from E.Indies, X20 (35·). -- Fig. 77,1a. M. complanata LAMARCK, Rec., W.Indies; surface showing stellate pores, X36 (35·)
Synonyms
Palmipora
Geographic Distribution
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Cret.(Dan.)
Beginning International Stage:
Danian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
66.04
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Colony arborescent, composed of upstanding plates, or incrusting. Gastropores and dactylopores circular to irregularly polygonal at orifices, exceptionally stellate; walls not extended above surface; 5 to 7 dactylopores commonly arranged around each gastropore forming indistinct cyclosystems. Ampullae in the coenosteum forming litde or no bulge at the surface, covered by somewhat loosetextured plates.
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Hydrozoa
Order:
Milleporina
Family:
Milleporidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Millepora LINNÉ, 1758
Type Species:
M. alcicornis, SD M.EDW.H., 1850
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 77,1b,c. M. tenera BOSCHMA, Rec.; 1b, surface of specimen from C.Pac. (Yap) showing 2 cyclosystems and 2 ampullae, X20; 1c, long. sec. of specimen from E.Indies, X20 (35·). -- Fig. 77,1a. M. complanata LAMARCK, Rec., W.Indies; surface showing stellate pores, X36 (35·)
Synonyms
Palmipora
Geographic Distribution
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
U.Cret.(Dan.)
Beginning International Stage:
Danian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
66.04
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Colony arborescent, composed of upstanding plates, or incrusting. Gastropores and dactylopores circular to irregularly polygonal at orifices, exceptionally stellate; walls not extended above surface; 5 to 7 dactylopores commonly arranged around each gastropore forming indistinct cyclosystems. Ampullae in the coenosteum forming litde or no bulge at the surface, covered by somewhat loosetextured plates.