''Pseudodiploria'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

stony coral Scleractinia, also called stony corals or hard corals, are marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria that build themselves a hard skeleton. The individual animals are known as polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral disc in which a mo ...

s in the subfamily Faviinae of the

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Mussidae Mussidae is a family of stony coral in the order Scleractinia. Following a taxonomic revision in 2012, the family is now restricted to species found in the Atlantic Ocean, with Pacific species transferred to the new family Lobophylliidae. Many ...

. This genus was erected in 2012, having been split off from the genus ''

Diploria ''Diploria'' is a monotypic genus of massive reef building stony corals in the family Mussidae. It is represented by a single species, ''Diploria labyrinthiformis'', commonly known as grooved brain coral and is found in the western Atlantic Oce ...

''. This genus is found in the tropical and subtropical West Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea.

Characteristics

''Pseudodiploria'' is a colonial coral. Budding is always intracalicular, occurring inside the oral disc of the polyp, within the whorl of

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s. The

corallite A corallite is the skeletal cup, formed by an individual stony coral polyp, in which the polyp sits and into which it can retract. The cup is composed of aragonite, a crystalline form of calcium carbonate, and is secreted by the polyp. Corallit ...

s are meandroid, with a number of centres being linked serially, separated by valleys some wide. There is a continuous, trabecular columella but hardly any coenosteum. The septal teeth are three-pointed and are orientated transversely to the septal plane.

Species

The

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lists the following two species : *''

Pseudodiploria clivosa ''Pseudodiploria'' is a genus of stony corals in the subfamily Faviinae of the family Mussidae. This genus was erected in 2012, having been split off from the genus '' Diploria''. This genus is found in the tropical and subtropical West Atlantic ...

'' (Ellis & Solander, 1786) *''

Pseudodiploria strigosa ''Pseudodiploria strigosa'', the symmetrical brain coral, is a Colony (biology), colonial species of Scleractinia, stony coral in the Family (biology), family Mussidae. It occurs on reefs in shallow water in the West Atlantic Ocean and Caribbean ...

'' (Dana, 1846)

References

Faviinae Scleractinia genera {{scleractinia-stub