Pourtalopsammia Cairns, 2001

Diagnosis.

Corallum solitary, conical to subcylindrical (sometimes scolecoid), and attached. Epitheca well developed, covering basal synapticulotheca; coenosteum distal to epitheca covered with thin, hispid ridges. Septa arranged in normal insertion pattern (not Pourtalès plan); three or four cycles of septa; axial margins of S1 highly sinuous. Columella absent. Endothecal dissepiments absent.

Type species.

Balanophyllia togata van der Horst, 1927, by monotypy.