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Figure 10 in Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)

Figure 10. Dipsastraea de Blainville, 1830, has discrete corallites that bud intracalicularly, equally thick costosepta, and spongy columellae. Septal teeth with medium height (0.3–0.6 mm) and spacing (0.3–1 mm). Walls formed by dominant paratheca and partial septotheca, with transverse septal crosses. A–C, Dipsastraea favus (Forskål, 1775), type species of Dipsastraea; macromorphology, lectotype ZMUC ANT-000466, Red Sea (A); micromorphology (scanning electron microscopy; B) and microstructure (transverse thin section; C), hypotype USNM 93662, Madang, Papua New Guinea. D, Dipsastraea amicorum (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849b); macromorphology, holotype MNHN IK-2010-470, Tongatapu, Tonga (photo by P. Lozouet). E, F, Dipsastraea mirabilis (Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941); micromorphology (E) and microstructure (F), hypotype USNM 93642, Madang, Papua New Guinea. G–I, Dipsastraea laddi (Wells, 1954); macromorphology (G), micromorphology (H), and microstructure (I), holotype USNM 44942, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands. J–L, Dipsastraea pallida (Dana, 1846); macromorphology, syntype USNM 30, Fiji (J); micromorphology (K) and microstructure (L), hypotype USNM 44952, Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands.

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