WoRMS taxon details
Merulinidae Verrill, 1865
AphiaID: 196102
AphiaID: 196102
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Family | ||||||||||
| Parent | Scleractinia | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Verrill, A.E. 1865. Classification of polyps (extract condensed from Synopsis of the Polyps and Corals of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition under Commodore C. Ringgold and Captain John Rodgers, U.S.N.). Communications of the Essex Institute 4: 145–152. [details] basis of record: Budd, A.F., Fukami, H., Smith, N.D. & Knowlton, N. 2012. Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166: 465–529. [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Australogyra Veron & Pichon, 1980 Genus Barabattoia Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941 Genus Boninastrea Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935 Genus Caulastraea Dana, 1846 Genus Cyphastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Genus Dipsastraea Blainville, 1830 Genus Echinopora Lamarck, 1816 Genus Erythrastrea Scheer & Pillai, 1983 Genus Favites Link, 1807 Genus Goniastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Genus Hydnophora Fischer, 1807 Genus Leptoria Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Genus Merulina Ehrenberg, 1834 Genus Oulophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Genus Paraclavarina Veron, 1985 Genus Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834 Genus Scapophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Genus Ulophyllia Milne Edwards, 1857 Genus Caulastrea Dana, 1846 accepted as Caulastraea Dana, 1846 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Description: All genera are extant, hermatypic and colonial. Skeletal structures are faviid-like but are highly fused, without paliform lobes. Valleys are superficial or may become obscured because of fanwise spreading or contortions. Related families are Faviidae and Trachyphylliidae. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196102 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Merulinidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196102 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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