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Leptastrea mammiformis

Leptastrea mammiformis

Nemenzo, 1959

Colony branched. Branches arising from explanate, creeping base; coalescent, crooked, biggest about 25 cm high; branchlets slender, tapering, but bigger ones tend to become palmate.

Corallites irregularly arranged on branches, unevenly distant, mammiform, bases much swollen. Average diameter at base 8 mm, 3-4 mm across calicinal mouth; 4-5 mm above perithecal surface. Young corallites with almost same diameter at base and mouth.

Septa in 3 cycles, those of the third incomplete, always narrow or rudimentary; 14-18 reaching columella; exsert, thin inside wall, suddenly thickened into costae; surface finely granulous, edge vertical, lower portion with 1 to 3 long, slender projections usually directed obliquely clockwise around columella, upper portion almost entire or finely granulous.

Costae thick, uniform height throughout extent, crossing perithecal area to neighboring corallites; showing alternation of large and small ones; edges granuluos. Small costae often without corresponding septa or at most only incipient ones.

Columella with a number of slender tubercles, twisted, lax.

Source:
Nemenzo, F. (1959). Systematic studies on Philippine shallow water scleractinians: II. Suborder Faviida. Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines. 16: 73-135.

Taxonomic status:
Unaccepted

Accepted name:
Echinopora mammiformis (Nemenzo, 1959)

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 XIV, Fig 2:UP C-99:Muelle, Puerto Galera, Oriental Mindoro (Nemenzo) 1954

Type specimen location:
Institute of Biology, University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City

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