WoRMS taxon details
Guyniidae Hickson, 1910
AphiaID: 135077
AphiaID: 135077
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Guynia Duncan, 1873 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Scleractinia | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema, and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1989. A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae. Smith. Cont. Zool. 486: 136 pp., 42 pls., 3 figs. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Guynia Duncan, 1873 Genus Pyrophyllia Hickson, 1910 accepted as Guynia Duncan, 1873 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Description: Solitary, free-living or attached, and tubular. Walls are composed of epitheca with pores between septa. Septa are few, not exsert, with smooth margins. Related family is Flabellidae. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] Fossil range: Upper Jurassic to Recent [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135077 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Guyniidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135077 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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