WoRMS taxon details
Poritidae
AphiaID: 196105
AphiaID: 196105
| 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 Alveopora de Blainville, 1830 Genus Goniopora de Blainville, 1830 Genus Machadoporites Nemésio, 2005 Genus Porites Genus Poritipora Genus Stylaraea Genus Calathiscus Claereboudt & Al-Amri, 2004 accepted as Machadoporites Nemésio, 2005 | |||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||
| Note |
Description: Colonial, hermatypic, mostly extant. Colonies usually massive, laminar or ramose. Corallites have a wide size range but are usually compacted with little or no coenosteum. Walls and septa are porous. Poritidae is an isolated family. It is essentially a heterogeneous assembly of distantly related genera. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196105 | |||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Poritidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196105 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||
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