“Scyphopodium, new genus
non Cyathopodium Verrill, 1868:415.
Cyathopodium.—Madsen, 1944:11.
Diagnosis.—Short, cylindrical anthosteles with rigid walls formed by a close calcareous meshwork of fused, branching sclerites arising from ribbonlike stolons also having rigid walls, encrusting solid objects; lower part of gastric cavity filled by intrusion of fused calcareous spicules, penetrated by 8 longitudinal canals; anthocodiae with irregularly tuberculate rods and crosses not fused and not arranged in converging points; white.
Tvpe-species.—Cyathopodium ingolfi Madsen, 1944:12, here designated.
Etymology.—From Greek σκύφος, cup + πόδιον, a little foot. Gender, neuter.
Remarks.—As Verrill's genus Cyathopodium was established for Dana's Aulopora tenuis, and Deichmann's Cvathopodium elegans is a Caribbean telestid, Madsen's doubt that his C. ingolfi belonged in the same genus was fully justified.”
(Bayer, 1981)
