Isophyllia
{{Short description|Genus of corals}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Isophyllia sinuosa.jpg
| image_caption = Isophyllia sinuosa
| taxon = Isophyllia
| authority = Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 {{cite WoRMS |author=Hoeksema, Bert |year=2018 |title=Isophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 |id=204354 |accessdate=14 August 2018|db=}}
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = See text
| synonyms = * Isophyllastraea
- Isophyllastrea Matthai, 1928
- Mussa (Isophyllia) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
}}
Isophyllia is a genus of stony coral in the subfamily Mussinae of the family Mussidae.
Characteristics
Isophyllia is a colonial coral. Budding is always intracalicular, occurring inside the oral disc of the polyp, within the whorl of tentacles. The corallites are meandroid, that is, they are linked in a short series of up to five centres. The individual corallites are medium-sized, being {{convert|2.5|to|5|mm|in|1|abbr=on}} in diameter and up to {{convert|6|mm|in|1|abbr=on}} high. There are three or more cycles of septa in each corallite, all equal in size. A narrow costate coenosteum separates the corallites.{{cite journal |author1=Budd, Ann F. |author2=Fukami, Hironobu |author3=Smith, Nathan D. |author4=Knowlton, Nancy |year=2012 |title=Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) |journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society |volume=166 |issue=3 |pages=465–529 |doi=10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x |doi-access=free }}
Species
The World Register of Marine Species lists the following species :
- Isophyllia rigida (Dana, 1848)
- Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
References
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