WoRMS taxon details
Cyphastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
AphiaID: 206488
AphiaID: 206488
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Merulinidae Verrill, 1865 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. Stylasteridae, Scleractinia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Cyphastrea agassizi (Vaughan, 1907) Species Cyphastrea chalcidicum (Forskal, 1775) Species Cyphastrea decadia Moll & Best, 1984 Species Cyphastrea hexasepta Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2002 Species Cyphastrea japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932 Species Cyphastrea microphthalma (Lamarck, 1816) Species Cyphastrea ocellina (Dana, 1846) Species Cyphastrea serailia (Forskål, 1775) Species Cyphastrea serialis (Forskål, 1775) Species Cyphastrea tanabensis Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932 accepted as Cyphastrea japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932 | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: All species, except for C. japonica (which is arborescent with axial and radial corallites), are massive or encrusting. Corallites are plocoid, with calices less than 3 mm in diameter. Costae are generally restricted to the corallite wall; the coenosteum is granulated. Polyps are extended only at night (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] Remark: Type species: Astraea microphthalma Lamarck, 1816 (Veron, 1986). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206488 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Cyphastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206488 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||||||||
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