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Porites
Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Octocorallia
Order:
Scleractinia
Suborder:
Fungiina
Superfamily:
Poriticae
Family:
Poritidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Porites LINK, 1807
Type Species:
P. polymorphus (=Madrepora porites PALLAS, 1766, partim)
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Fig. 287,1. *P. (P.) porites, Rec., W.Indies
Synonyms
Stylaraea, Cosmoporites, Neoporites
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Eoc.
Beginning International Stage:
Ypresian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
56
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Massive, ramose, or incrusting. Corallites smaller (to 2 mm) than Goniopora, with only 2 septal cycles. Septa formed by 3 to 4 trabeculae. [ One of the most important hermatypic coral genera, second only to Acropora.]
References
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Classification
Phylum:
Cnidaria
Class:
Anthozoa
Subclass:
Octocorallia
Order:
Scleractinia
Suborder:
Fungiina
Superfamily:
Poriticae
Family:
Poritidae
Formal Genus Name and Reference:
Porites LINK, 1807
Type Species:
P. polymorphus (=Madrepora porites PALLAS, 1766, partim)
Images
(Click to enlarge in a new window)
Fig. 287,1. *P. (P.) porites, Rec., W.Indies
Synonyms
Stylaraea, Cosmoporites, Neoporites
Geographic Distribution
cosmop.
Age Range
Beginning Stage in Treatise Usage:
Eoc.
Beginning International Stage:
Ypresian
Fraction Up In Beginning Stage:
0
Beginning Date:
56
Ending Stage in Treatise Usage:
Rec.
Ending International Stage:
Meghalayan
Fraction Up In Ending Stage:
100
Ending Date:
0
Description
Massive, ramose, or incrusting. Corallites smaller (to 2 mm) than Goniopora, with only 2 septal cycles. Septa formed by 3 to 4 trabeculae. [ One of the most important hermatypic coral genera, second only to Acropora.]