Merulinidae
| Merulinidae | |
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| Astrea curta | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Anthozoa |
| Subclass: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Scleractinia |
| Family: | Merulinidae Verrill, 1865 [1] |
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The Merulinidae are a family of reef-building stony corals.
Characteristics
All the genera in this family are colonial, reef-building corals. Skeletal structures are similar to those of Faviidae but are highly fused, without paliform lobes. The valleys are superficial or may be indistinct because of fan-like spreading or contortions in the ridges. Faviidae and Trachyphylliidae are the most closely related families.[1]
Genera
The World Register of Marine Species includes these genera in the family:[1]
- Astrea Lamarck, 1801
- Australogyra Veron & Pichon, 1982
- Boninastrea Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935
- Caulastraea Dana, 1846
- Coelastrea Verrill, 1866
- Cyphastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
- Dipsastraea Blainville, 1830
- Echinopora Lamarck, 1816
- Erythrastrea Pichon, Scheer & Pillai, 1983
- Favites Link, 1807
- Goniastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
- Hydnophora Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
- Leptoria Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
- Merulina Ehrenberg, 1834
- Mycedium Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
- Orbicella Dana, 1846
- Oulophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
- Paragoniastrea Huang, Benzoni & Budd, 2014
- Paramontastraea Huang & Budd, 2014
- Pectinia Blainville, 1825
- Physophyllia Duncan, 1884
- Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834
- Scapophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
- Trachyphyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
References
- 1 2 3 WoRMS (2010). "Merulinidae: Verrill, 1865". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-03-19.
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