"Genus Desmophyllum Ehrenberg, 1834
Diagnosis, Solitary, trochoid, fixed. No pali. Columella absent or very small. Sparse endothecal dissepiments.
Type-species: Desmophyllmn dianthus Ehrenberg, 1834, by subsequent designation (Milne Edwards and Haime, 1850)." Cairns 1982, p. 29.
