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Scleractinia 
AphiaID: 1363

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Order
Parent Hexacorallia
Synonymised
taxa
  Madreporaria
Sources  basis of record: Vaughan, T.W. & Wells, J.W. 1943. Revision of the suborders, families and genera of the Scleractinia. Special Papers of the Geological Society of America 44: 1–363. [details]

additional source: Chevalier, J.P. & Beauvais, L. 1987. Ordre des Scleractiniaires, p. 403-764. In: Grasse PP (ed.), Traite de Zoologie, Cnidaires, Anthozoaires. Masson, Paris. [details]

additional source: Wells, J.W. 1956. Scleractinia. In: Moore RC (ed) Treatise on invertebrate paleontology F. Coelenterata. Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press, pp. 328–440. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch steenkoralen  [details]
English hard corals  [details]
English stony corals  [details]
German Steinkorallen  [details]
Italian sclerattinia  [details]
Lithuanian akmeniniai koralai  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Σκληρακτίνια  [details]
Norwegian steinkoraller  [details]
Polish korale rafowe  [details]
Russian жесткие (мадрепоровые) кораллы  [details]
Slovenian kamene korale  [details]
Turkish mercanlar  [details]
Ukrainian Склерактинії  [details]
Ukrainian Склерактінії  [details]
Direct child
taxa
 Family Acroporidae Verrill, 1902
Family Agariciidae Gray, 1847
Family Anthemiphylliidae Vaughan, 1907
Family Astrocoeniidae Koby, 1890
Family Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846
Family Coscinaraeidae Benzoni, F., Arrigoni, R., Stefani, F., Stolarski, J., 2012
Family Deltocyathidae Kitahara, Cairns, Stolarski & Miller, 2012
Family Dendrophylliidae Gray, 1847
Family Diploastreidae Chevalier & Beauvais, 1987
Family Euphylliidae Alloiteau, 1952
Family Faviidae Gregory, 1900
Family Flabellidae Bourne, 1905
Family Fungiacyathidae Chavalier, 1987
Family Fungiidae Dana, 1846
Family Gardineriidae Stolarski, 1996
Family Guyniidae Hickson, 1910
Family Lobophylliidae Fukami, Budd & Knowlton, 2012
Family Meandrinidae Gray, 1847
Family Merulinidae Verrill, 1865
Family Micrabaciidae Vaughan, 1905
Family Montastraeidae Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941
Family Montlivaltiidae Dietrich, 1926 †
Family Mussidae
Family Oculinidae Gray, 1847
Family Pectiniidae
Family Pocilloporidae Gray, 1842
Family Poritidae
Family Psammocoridae Chevalier & Beauvais, 1987
Family Rhizangiidae d'Orbigny, 1851
Family Schizocyathidae Stolarski, 2000
Family Scleractinia incertae sedis
Family Siderastreidae
Family Stenocyathidae Stolarski, 2000
Family Trachyphylliidae
Family Trochosmiliidae
Family Turbinoliidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1363
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  db_admin
2010-12-03 12:55:38Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Scleractinia. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1363 on 2013-05-19
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