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Geopora
Scientific name: Geopora
Geopora
Scientific name: Geopora
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Description
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Individual taxa may be sessile to shortly stipitate, cupulate, discoid (disc-shaped), pulvinate (cushion-shaped), or with turbinate (turban-shaped) epigeous geopora. Also, taxa may be sub-hypogeous to hypogeous with closed, folded, or solid geopora. Geopora may range in size from less than 1.02 mm up to 11 cm diameter, and may be brightly colored due to carotenoid pigments. Genera of the geopora lack unifying macroscopic or microscopic characteristics; this lack of uniting characters has led various authors to propose a variety of classification schemes.
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Species of Geopora
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Scientific Classification
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