†Dendrogyra elegans d'Orbigny 1850 (stony coral)
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Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Meandrinidae
Alternative combination: Meandrina elegans
Full reference: A. d'Orbigny. 1850. Prodrome du paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques et rayonnés faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphique 2:1-428
Belongs to Dendrogyra according to E. de Fromentel 1861
See also d'Orbigny 1850 and Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857
Sister taxa: Dendrogyra aequicostata, Dendrogyra arcensis, Dendrogyra cylindrus, Dendrogyra incerta, Dendrogyra subrastellina, Dendrogyra thurmanni
Ecology: stationary upper-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution: there are no occurrences of Dendrogyra elegans in the database
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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