Antroporidae Vigneaux, 1949

Colony encrusting, unilaminar or multilaminar. Autozooid cryptocyst moderately developed, gymnocyst negligible or absent. Spines absent. Avicularia interzooidal, small, and vicarious, large. Ovicells small, cap-like, endozooidal (After Tilbrook, Hayward & Gordon, 2001)

This family includes the genera:

  1. Akatopora
  2. Antropora
  3. Lateroflustrella
  4. Parantropora
Akatopora clausentina Antropora granulifera
Akatopora clausentina
(thanks to Dennis Gordon, NIWA)		 Antropora granulifera
(thanks to Dennis Gordon, NIWA)

Antropora page at NMITA

Antropora leucocypha - at the Smithsonian Marine Station at Fort Pierce, Florida.
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Edited by Phil Bock
Modified on 28th April 2005
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