Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848

Trachyphyllia geoffroyi (5)

Type species: Trachyphyllia geoffroyi (Audoin, 1826)

Total number of species estimated: 1

Characteristics: Like Antillophylllia, but colonial, flabello-meandroid, resulting from intramural budding, with forking and branching. Series short, free laterally, centers with trabecular linkages, walls parathecal below, usually septothecal above. Columella parietal.

Range: Red Sea, Indo-Pacific.

Key references: Best and Hoeksema, 1987; Veron, 1986, 2000.

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Cnidaria
Class Anthozoa
Subclass Hexacorallia
Order Scleractinia
Family Trachyphylliidae
Genus Trachyphyllia

Sorry, there are no scientific synonyms and common names available for this taxon

Best, M, B. & B.W. Hoeksema, 1987. New observations on scleractinian corals from Indonesia: 1. Free-living species belonging to the Faviina. ? Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 61: 387-403.

Cairns, S.D. & H. Zibrowius, 1997. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian Regions. Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle 172(2): 27-243, 29 plates.

Veron, J.E.N. , 1986. Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson.

Veron, J.E.N., 2000. Corals of the world. Volumes 1-3. ? Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Qld.

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