Toward a revision of the bamboo corals: Part 3, deconstructing the Family Isididae
Author
Saucier, Esprit Heestand
Faculty of Science, Brigham Young University - Hawaii, 55 - 220 Kulanui St, Laie, Hawaii, 96762, USA
Author
France, Scott C.
Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
Author
Watling, Les
School of Life Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
text
Zootaxa
2021
2021-09-30
5047
3
247
272
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5047.3.2
1175-5326
5540714
072B07D8-324A-412E-A76E-C39067AC77AE
Family
Chelidonisididae
n. family
Type
genus:
Chelidonisis
Studer, 1890
Diagnosis.
Modified from
Bayer and Stefani (1987a)
. Colony branched in one plane, occasionally anastomosing, branching from distal end of internodes; internodes longitudinally ridged, the ridges armed with spines; polyps forming hemispherical or bluntly conical verrucae distributed mostly on two sides of the branches in the plane of ramification; coenenchyme thin; sclerites predominantly in the form of 6-radiates and with small tuberculate plates in the tentacles.
Included genera:
Chelidonisis
Studer, 1890
.
Remarks.
See the Remarks under the family
Isididae
.