Oculina Lamarck, 1816
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https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00264-8 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/D500792E-FFC6-8306-FF17-F8F2FAABFDCE |
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Felipe |
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Oculina Lamarck, 1816 |
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Genus Oculina Lamarck, 1816 View in CoL
Type species. Oculina virginea Lamarck, 1816 , Atlantic Ocean, Holocene (subsequent designation by Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850).
Diagnosis. Colonial; dendroid, ramose ‒ dendroid, encrusting, reptoid, and irregularly massive. Ramose ‒ dendroid colonies formed by alternate extracalicular budding with corallites found on all sides of branches. Costae present or absent. Coenosteum dense, striated (non ‒ costate) or smooth. Pali before S1 and S 2 in a crown that appears rather regular in small ‒ size corallites (up to around 4 mm), becoming more irregular with increase in corallite size. Columella spongy, papillose, made of a small number of twisted segments, or absent. Endothecal dissepiments sparse or absent. Ahermatypic and hermatypic. Zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate species.
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