Meandrinidae
creator: Vanden Berghe, Edward
creator: Hoeksema, Bert
date: 2026-08-29
language: en
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publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Meandrinidae Gray, 1847
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Meandrinidae Gray, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196101 on 2026-08-29
created: 2005-12-27T20:49:34Z
modified: 2025-02-25T11:07:01Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Meandrinidae Gray, 1847
class: Hexacorallia
family: Meandrinidae
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Gray J.E. (1847). An outline of an arrangement of stony corals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 19: 120-128.
name published in: Alloiteau J. (1952). Embranchement des Coelentérés. Madreporaires Post-Paleozoiques. In: Piveteau J, ed. Traité de Paléontologie, Volume 1. Paris: Masson. 539–782, pls. 1-10.
name published in: Beauvais L. (1964). Ėtude stratigraphique et paléontologique des formations à madréporaires du Jurassique supérieur du Jura et de l'Est du Bassin de Paris. Mémoires de la Société de géologique de France. 43 (100): 1–287, pls. 1-38.
name published in: Haime, J.; Milne Edwards, H. In: Milne Edwards, H. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp.
name published in: Thiel, M.E. (1932). Madreporaria. Zugleich ein Versuch einer vergleichenden Oekologie der gefundenen Formen. Resultats scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Neerlandaises. Memoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. 2(12): 1-177, pls. 1-21.
name published in: Vaughan TW, Wells JW. (1943). Revision of the suborders, families and genera of the Scleractinia. Special Papers of the Geological Society of America. 44: 1-363.
name published in: Verrill A. E. (1901). Variations and nomenclature of Bermudian, West Indian and Brazilian reef corals, with notes on various Indo-Pacific corals. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 11: 63-168.
name published in: Verrill AE. (1866). Synopsis of the polyps and corals of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, under Commodore C. Ringgold and Capt. John Rodgers, U.S.N., from 1853 to 1856. Collected by Dr. Wm. Stimpson, Naturalist to the Expedition. With descriptions of some additional species from the west coast of North America. Part III. Madreporaria. Communications of the Essex Institute, Salem. 5(3): 17-50, pls. 1-2.
name published in: Zlatarski V. (1968). Diplocteniopsidae, une nouvelle famille de Madreporaria de l'Aptien de la Bulgarie du Nord. Bull. Geol. Inst., Ser. Paleontology. 17: 49–107.
name published in year: 1847
name published in year: 1952
name published in year: 1964
name published in year: 1857
name published in year: 1932
name published in year: 1943
name published in year: 1901
name published in year: 1866
name published in year: 1968
order: Scleractinia
parent name usage ID: 1517259
phylum: Cnidaria
scientific name authorship: Gray, 1847
taxon rank: Family
taxonomic status: accepted