Astrocoeniidae
| Astrocoeniidae | |
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| Stephanocoenia intersepta | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Scleractinia |
| Suborder: | Astrocoeiina |
| Family: | Astrocoeniidae Koby, 1890 [1] |
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Astrocoeniidae is a family of stony corals. The family is distributed across the tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide.[2]
Description
Astrocoeniids include both hermatypic and ahermatypic (reef-building) colonial corals, both with and without symbiotic zooxanthellae. The family is made up of both branching and encrusting species which can range in size from less than 5 cm (2.0 in) to more than 30 m (98 ft) across.[2]
Species
The World Register of Marine Species includes the following genera and species in the family:[3]
- Astrocoenia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †
- Astrocoenia blanfordi Duncan, 1880 †
- Astrocoenia cellulata Duncan, 1880 †
- Astrocoenia dachiardii Duncan, 1873 †
- Astrocoenia decaphylla Duncan, 1863 †
- Astrocoenia gibbosa Duncan, 1880 †
- Palauastrea Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941
- Palauastrea ramosa Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941
- Stephanocoenia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
- Stephanocoenia incrustans Duncan, 1873 †
- Stephanocoenia intersepta (Lamarck, 1816) - synonym, Stephanocoenia michelini
- Stephanocoenia maxima Duncan, 1880 †
- Stephanocoenia microtuberculata Duncan, 1880 †
- Stephanocoenia reussi Duncan, 1868 †
- Stephanocoenia tenuis Duncan, 1863 †
- Stylocoenia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 †
- Stylocoenia maxima Duncan, 1880 †
- Stylocoenia ranikoti Duncan, 1880 †
- Stylocoenia taurinensis Michelin, 1842 †
- Stylocoeniella Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935
- Stylocoeniella armata (Ehrenberg, 1834)
- Stylocoeniella cocosensis Veron, 1990
- Stylocoeniella guentheri (Bassett-Smith, 1890)
- Stylocoeniella nikei Benzoni & Pichon, 2004
References
- ^ Vanden Berghe, Edward (2010). "Astrocoeniidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
- ^ a b Family Astrocoeniidae Classification of Scleractinian (Stony) Corals. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Astrocoeniidae Koby, 1890". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-22.