WoRMS taxon details
Oculinidae Gray, 1847
AphiaID: 135078
AphiaID: 135078
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Family | ||||||||||
| Parent | Scleractinia | ||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema, and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Acrhelia Genus Bantamia Genus Bathelia Moseley, 1881 Genus Cyathelia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849 Genus Galaxea Oken, 1815 Genus Madrepora Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Oculina Lamarck, 1816 Genus Petrophyllia Conrad, 1855 Genus Schizoculina Genus Sclerhelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850 Genus Simplastrea Genus Amphelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Madrepora Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Amphihelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 accepted as Madrepora Linnaeus, 1758 Genus Archohelia accepted as Petrophyllia Conrad, 1855 Genus Cyathohelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Cyathelia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849 Genus Lophohelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 accepted as Lophelia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849 Genus Neohelia Moseley, 1881 accepted as Madrepora Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Colonial, hermatypic and ahermatypic, extant and fossil. Corallites are thickened and linked by a smooth coenosteum. Septa are very exsert. Related family is Rhizangiidae. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135078 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Oculinidae. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135078 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||
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