• Home
  • Search
  • Browse Collections
  • My Account
  • About
  • DC Network Digital Commons Network™
Skip to main content
  • Home
  • About
  • FAQ
  • My Account
  • Contact Us
Animo Repository

Home > COLLEGES_UNITS > UNITS > RES_SHORE_NEMENZO > CORAL_COSCINARAEA_FOLIATA

Coscinaraea foliata

Coscinaraea foliata

Nemenzo, 1979

Corallum frondose, less than 1 mm thin at edge, 4 mm towards center. Lower surface without epitheca; marked with radially disposed, wide elevations of varying width, separated by narrow valleys punctuated with depression. Surface of elevation appears smooth to unaided eye but under lens or microscope, costae of submicroscopic size are visible with very tine spinules particularly towards edge of corallum.

Upper surface appears crumpled. Prominent collines of varying width follow somewhat radial but sinuous courses towards edge of corallum, the spaces between cut into compartments by lower, cross collines, each compartment containing 1 or more calicinal centers.

Corallites set inside depressions (compartments) of various dimensions and without discernible pattern of arrangement – most compartments have 2 or more centers, newly separated by circumoral budding, connected with each other by laminar linkages. Fossa relatively shallow.

Septa 20-42 in single full sized corallites; a number of short ones fuse with longer ones far from columella; as thick as or thinner than intervening loculi; higher, more fuzzy ones alternating with lower, less fuzzy ones; around 60 septa per cm on collines. The regularity of septa picture is striking in this coral.

Columella rather small, usually a flat piece, sometimes elevated as a rounded tubercle.

Source:
Nemenzo, F. (1979). New species and new records of stony corals from west-central Philippines. The Philippine Journal of Science. 108 (1-2): 1-25.

Taxonomic status:
Unaccepted

Accepted name:
Leptoseris yabei (Pillai & Scheer, 1976)

Source:
WoRMS Editorial Board. (2024). World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ. Accessed 2024-05-02. doi:10.14284/170

Material:
Plate II, Fig 1-2:SU -CRS-139:Siquijor Island (Lawton Alcala) 1977 (Depth - 25 feet)

Type specimen location:
Marine Sciences Laboratory, Siliman University, Dumaguete City

Printing is not supported at the primary Gallery Thumbnail page. Please first navigate to a specific Image before printing.

Follow

Switch View to List
 
 
 
 

Search

Advanced Search

  • Notify me via email or RSS

Browse

  • Collections
  • Disciplines
  • Colleges and Units
  • Authors

Submit

  • Author FAQ
  • Submission Consent Form
  • Animo Repository Policies

Connect

  • Animo Repository Guide
  • AnimoSearch
  • Ask LORA
  • DLSU Libraries
  • DLSU Website
De La Salle University
 
Elsevier - Digital Commons

Home | About | FAQ | My Account | Accessibility Statement

Privacy Copyright