NMITA: Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America

Pavona

Pavona Lamarck, 1801

Morphologic Description: Massive or bifacial folia; subcerioid to subplocoid; thin outer wall; irregular short series; septal ornament fine or absent.

Morphologic Diagnosis: Colony Form: plocoid, Colony Shape: branching or massive, Budding: intramural, Columella: trabecular and discontinuous, Corallite Size: medium (1.5 - 10mm), Wall Structure: synapticulothecal, Lobes: none.

I. P. (Pseudocolumnastrea) Yabe and Sugiyama, 1933: Bifacial folia or rounded branches; plocoid; exsert calices; rare discontinuous collines.

Species (2 total):

P. (P.) sp A.; CC species #38 (extinct).
P. (P.) sp B.; CC species #39 (extinct).

II. P. (Pavona) s.s.: Massive or foliaceous; calical walls often indistinct; collines irregular, radiating or absent.

Species (3 total):

P. (Pavona) panamensis Vaughan, 1919; CC species #40 (extinct).
P. (Pavona) pennyi Vaughan in Vaughan and Hoffmeister, 1926; CC species #41 (extinct).
P. (Pavona) trinitatis Vaughan in Vaughan and Hoffmeister, 1926: CC species #42 (extinct).

Last updated on October 24, 1996-afb.

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