WoRMS taxon details
Agariciidae Gray, 1847
AphiaID: 196096
AphiaID: 196096
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | ||||||||||
| Rank | Family | ||||||||||
| Parent | Scleractinia | ||||||||||
| Source | Not documented | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Agaricia Lamarck, 1801 Genus Coeloseris Vaughan, 1918 Genus Dactylotrochus Wells, 1954 Genus Gardineroseris Scheer & Pillai, 1974 Genus Helioseris Genus Leptoseris Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 Genus Pachyseris Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849 Genus Pavona Lamarck, 1801 Genus Agariciella accepted as Gardineroseris Scheer & Pillai, 1974 Genus Pavonia Lamarck accepted as Pavona Lamarck, 1801 | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Agariciidae have very fine tentacles which are seldom extended during the day (except for Pavona explanulata). Little is known about their sexual reproduction, except that different species may be separately sexed or hermaphrodite and may brood planula larvae or release gametes. The genera in this family are colonial (except for some fossil genera), hermatypic. Colonies are massive, laminar or foliaceous. Corallites are immersed with poorly defined walls formed by thickening of the septo-costae. Septa seldom fuse and are continuous between adjacent corallite centres. They have smooth or finely serrated margins and are closely packed. Similar family is Siderastreidae. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196096 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Agariciidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196096 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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