Genus Trachyphyllia

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.

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