Scleractinia taxon details
Milleporidae Fleming, 1828
196235 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196235)
accepted
Family
- Genus Millepora Linnaeus, 1758
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Not documented
Scleractinia (2024). Milleporidae Fleming, 1828. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196235 on 2024-05-10
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context source (MSBIAS)
MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Hydroid colony forming massive, calcareous exoskeletons (= coenosteum) of varied shape; coenosteum with an internal complex network of coenosarcal tubes and covered externally by a thin ectodermal layer, coenosteal surface perforated by pores; margins of pores not elevated; large gastropores surrounded by smaller dactylopores, forming indistinct cyclosystems; polyps polymorphic; gastrozooids relatively short and stout, with an oral whorl of four to seven short capitate tentacles, arising from gastropores; dactylozooids long, slender, mouthless, with scattered capitate tentacles, arising from dactylopores; cnidome with stenoteles and macrobasic mastigophores; gonophores arising from coenosarc within chambers embedded entirely in the coenosteum. Medusa free swimming eumedusoids with exumbrellar nematocyst patches, radial and circular canals present, without tentacles and sense organs; gonads occupying the place of an indistinct manubrium. [details]
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Japanese | アナサンゴモドキ科 | [details] |