Description
"Genus Lophelia Milne Edwards and Haime, 1849
Diagnosis. Colonial, forming large dendroid colonies by intratentacular budding. Coenosteum dense. Costae and columella poorly developed. Pali absent. Sparse tabular endothecal dissepiments.
Type-species: Madrepora prolifera Pallas, 1766, by subsequent designation (Milne Edwards and Haime, 1850)." Cairns 1982, p. 30.
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Cairns, S.D. 1982. Antarctic and Subantarctic. Antarctic Research Series 34(1): 1-74, 18 pls.
http://invertebrates.si.edu/antiz/taxon_view.cfm?mode=bibliography&citation=1035
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Milne Edwards, H., and J. Haime. 1850. A monograph of the British fossil corals. Part 1. Introduction: Corals of the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations. Palaeontographical Society, London.
http://invertebrates.si.edu/antiz/taxon_view.cfm?mode=bibliography&citation=1146
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