thamnasterioid

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Noun

thamnasterioid (plural thamnasterioids)

1. A large corallum with interconnecting septa
   • 2016 January 12, “Fine-Scale Skeletal Banding Can Distinguish Symbiotic from Asymbiotic Species among Modern and Fossil Scleractinian Corals”, in PLOS ONE‎^[1], →DOI:

     Symbiotic corals often have corallites of small size and form highly integrated colonies (e.g., meandroid or thamnasterioid colonies) with large parts of the surface covered by coenosarc (interpolypoidal tissue) [14 ].