WoRMS taxon details
Pectiniidae
AphiaID: 196104
AphiaID: 196104
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Added by Database Management Team | |||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||
| Parent | Scleractinia | |||||||
| Source | Not documented | |||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Echinomorpha Genus Echinophyllia Klunzinger, 1879 Genus Mycedium Oken, 1815 Genus Oxypora Genus Pectinia Genus Physophyllia Duncan, 1884 | |||||||
| Links | To GenBank (0 nucleotides; 16 proteins) To ITIS | |||||||
| Note |
Description: The pectiniids, except Pectinia, have mussid-like polyps, typically thick and fleshy and usually very colourful. Polyps are extended only at night. They usually have long, thin, translucent tentacles. As far as is known, pectiniids are hermaphrodites and release gametes during periods of mass spawning for external fertilisation. There is one solitary fossil genus, the remainder are colonial and hermatypic. Colonies are basically laminar, composed of thin plates. Corallite walls are absent or formed by the non-porous costate coenosteum of the laminae. Related family is Mussidae. Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196104 | |||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Pectiniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196104 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||
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