Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys Author Vasseur, Raphaël Université de Lorraine, CNRS, lab. GeoRessources, UMR 7359, BP 70239, F- 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy cedex (France) raphaelvasseur@wanadoo.fr Author Lathuilière, Bernard Université de Lorraine, CNRS, lab. GeoRessources, UMR 7359, BP 70239, F- 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy cedex (France) bernard.lathuiliere@univ-lorraine.fr text Geodiversitas 2021 2021-11-23 43 22 1187 1291 journal article 10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 1638-9395 5764379 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:6D1643AD-66A5-4678-9397-CE08E610D641 Genus Epismiliopsis Alloiteau, 1952 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 628C7E4F-B6C9-4B5D-8EEE-F254CB035D42 TYPE SPECIES. — Epismilia liasica Fromentel & Ferry, 1865 ( Fromentel & Ferry 1865: 53 , pl. 15, fig. 3), by monotypy. REMARK Although the genus is very close to Stylophyllopsis Frech, 1890 , it seems to differ by a well-defined bilateral symmetry marked by the elongated fossa and the curvature of lateral septa, and by a less apparent stylophyllid microstructure (detached septal spines are sometimes absent) giving sometimes an appearance close to Coryphyllia Cuif, 1975 to some species of the genus (the microstructure allows the differentiation of the two groups).