Scleractinia taxon details
Tropiastraeidae Cuif, 1977 †
Tropiastraeidae Melnikova, 1984 † · unaccepted > junior objective synonym (homonymy)
- Genus Alichurastrea Melnikova & Roniewicz, 2021 †
- Genus Chevalieria Melnikova, 1984 †
- Genus Elysastraea Laube, 1865 †
- Genus Eomicrophyllia Melnikova & Roniewicz, 2021 †
- Genus Guembelastraea Cuif, 1976 †
- Genus Guembelastreomorpha Melnikova & Roniewicz, 2021 †
- Genus Stuoresia Cuif, 1976 †
- Genus Thamnasteriamorpha Melnikova, 1971 †
- Genus Toechastraea Volz, 1896 †
- Genus Tropiastraea Cuif, 1967 †
- Genus Tropidendron Cuif, 1975 †
- Genus Tropiphyllum Cuif, 1975 †
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Cuif, J.P. (1977). Arguments pour une relation phylétique entre les Madréporaires paléozoïques et ceux du Trias. Implications systématiques et l'analyse microstructurale des Madréporaires triasiques. <em>Mémoires dela Société Géologique de France n.s.</em> 56 (129): 1–54. [details]
Status nomen correctum ex Tropiastraea-group Cuif 1977 spelling corrected in Roniewicz 1989: 24
Status nomen correctum ex Tropiastraea-group Cuif 1977 spelling corrected in Roniewicz 1989: 24 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Tropiastraeidae Cuif, 1977 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1438173 on 2025-05-14
original description
Cuif, J.P. (1977). Arguments pour une relation phylétique entre les Madréporaires paléozoïques et ceux du Trias. Implications systématiques et l'analyse microstructurale des Madréporaires triasiques. <em>Mémoires dela Société Géologique de France n.s.</em> 56 (129): 1–54. [details]
original description (of Tropiastraeidae Melnikova, 1984 †) Melnikova GK. (1984). Novye pozdnetriasovye korally otriada Archaeocoeni-ida Alloiteau, 1952 yugo-zapadnogo Pamira. In: Djalilov, M.R. (Ed.), Novyevidy iskopaemoy fauny i flory Tajikistana. Donish, Dushanbe, pp. 42–55 [in Russian]. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
basis of record Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2017). Early Jurassic corals with dominating solitary growth forms from the Kasamurg Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 26 (1): 124-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.001 [details]
original description (of Tropiastraeidae Melnikova, 1984 †) Melnikova GK. (1984). Novye pozdnetriasovye korally otriada Archaeocoeni-ida Alloiteau, 1952 yugo-zapadnogo Pamira. In: Djalilov, M.R. (Ed.), Novyevidy iskopaemoy fauny i flory Tajikistana. Donish, Dushanbe, pp. 42–55 [in Russian]. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
basis of record Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2017). Early Jurassic corals with dominating solitary growth forms from the Kasamurg Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 26 (1): 124-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.001 [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Phaceloid or colonial corals; increase intracalicular without skeletal connections between centers, dividing wall based on septa; trabeculae monoaxial a/o incompletely fused in the midseptal zone; cup-like pennules and/or menianes with a rim directed upwards; septal inner margins with regular trabecular projections; columella solid, monoaxial, or composed of trabecular projections, or lacking; dissepiments vesiculous; intercorallite wall septothecal; holotheca. [details]Status nomen correctum ex Tropiastraea-group Cuif 1977 spelling corrected in Roniewicz 1989: 24 [details]
