Tubastraea Lesson 1830

Genus Tubastraea Lesson, 1830 Diagnosis of genus Tubastraea (emended after Cairns 2001 and Cairns & Kitahara 2012) Colonial coralla firmly attached and encrusting; septa cycles hexamerally arranged and typically inserted with spongy columella; septa arranged /not arranged in a Pourtalès plan; corallum with a rough texture; colony developing from a common basal coenosteum by budding, with clear connection among polyps; columella small to moderate in size and lacks an epitheca.Published as part of Yiu, Sam King Fung, Chung, Sheena Suet-Wah & Qiu, Jian-Wen, 2021, A new species of the sun coral genus Tubastraea (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) from Hong Kong, pp. 1-16 in Zootaxa 5047 (1) on page 3, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5047.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/553362