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Paramontastraea peresi

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae

Taxonomy
Favites peresi was named by Faure and Pichon (1978). It is extant.

It was recombined as Goniastrea peresi by Veron (2000); it was recombined as Paramontastraea peresi by Khalil et al. (2021).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1978Favites peresi Faure and Pichon
2000Goniastrea peresi Veron
2021Paramontastraea peresi Khalil et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
RankNameAuthor
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
familyMerulinidaeVerrill 1866
genusParamontastraea
speciesperesi(Faure and Pichon 1978)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Paramontastraea peresi Faure and Pichon 1978
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Diagnosis
ReferenceDiagnosis
H. M. Khalil et al. 2021Colonies are commonly irregular, usually submassive or encrusting and helmet-shaped, with neatly scalloped lower margins.
Budding is both intra- and extratentacular. Corallites are angular or irregularly polygonal and characteristically aligned in short shallow radiating valleys at the colony margin (about 12 to 16 mm in diameters and up to 10 mm deep). The walls are high, thin and acute at the top. The septa are very low, thin and narrow with equidistant serration at the edges and bear a conspicuous ring of paliform lobes around the columella.