WoRMS taxon details
Siderastreidae
AphiaID: 196106
AphiaID: 196106
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Added by Database Management Team | |||||||
| Rank | Family | |||||||
| Parent | Scleractinia | |||||||
| Source |
additional source: Benzoni, F., Arrigoni, R., Stefani, F., Reijnen, B.T., Montano, S. & Hoeksema, B.W. 2012. Phylogenetic position and taxonomy of Cycloseris explanulata and C. wellsi (Scleractinia: Fungiidae): lost mushroom corals find their way home. Contributions to Zoology 81: 125-146. [details] | |||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Genus Pseudosiderastrea Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935 Genus Siderastrea | |||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||
| Note |
Description: This family is composed largely of an assemblage of genera which have doubtful relationships. All but two genera are small and have relatively restricted distributions. As far as is known, all siderastreids have colonies of separate sex. Colonial (except for some fossil genera), hermatypic, mostly extant. Corallites are immersed with poorly defined walls formed by thickening of the septo-costae. Septa are usually fused along their inner margins to form fan-like groups, they have granulated upper margins and are closely compacted and equally spaced. Related family is the Agaricidae. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] | |||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196106 | |||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Siderastreidae. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196106 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||
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