NMITA: Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America

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Astrocoeniidae Koby, 1890: small corallites; simple trabeculae; reduced coenosteum; beaded septal margins.

Pocilloporidae Gray, 1842: small corallites; simple trabeculae; nonporous coenosteum.

Acroporidae Verrill, 1902: small corallites; simple trabeculae; extensive porous, reticulate coenosteum.
Agariciidae Gray, 1847: corals with confluent septa comprised of closely packed simple trabeculae and united by synapticulae.
Siderastreidae Vaughan and Wells, 1943: fenestrate septa; synapticulothecal.
Poritidae Gray, 1842: porous septa; well-defined calices; reduced coenosteum.
Faviidae Gregory, 1900: strongly dentate margins and rare synapticulae.
Trachyphylliidae Verrill, 1901: dentate septa; inner fan of trabeculae forming prominent lobes.
Meandrinidae Gray, 1847: fine septal dentations; lamellar columella; solid coenosteum; invariably intramural budding.
Oculinidae Gray, 1847: fine septal dentations; vesicular or solid coenosteum; extramural budding (only massive, exclusively hermatypic taxa included).
Mussidae Ortmann, 1890: solitary or colonial with large coarse septal dentition.
Caryophylliidae Gray, 1847: costae covered by epitheca; exsert, subequal septa.