WoRMS taxon details
Acroporidae Verrill, 1902
AphiaID: 196095
AphiaID: 196095
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Acropora Oken, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Scleractinia | |||||||||||||
| Source | Not documented | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Acropora Oken, 1815 Genus Anacropora Ridley, 1884 Genus Astreopora Blainville, 1830 Genus Enigmopora Ditlev, 2003 Genus Isopora Studer, 1878 Genus Montipora Blainville, 1830 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Colonial, hermatypic, mostly extant. Colonies have all growth forms known for hermatypic corals. Corallites (except Astreopora) are small with septa in two cycles or less, columellae are poorly developed. Related families Pocilloporidae and Astrocoeniidae. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196095 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Acroporidae Verrill, 1902. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196095 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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