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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMilleporidae Fleming, 1828 
AphiaID: 196235

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCnidaria (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHydrozoa (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHydroidolina (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnthoathecata (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCapitata (Suborder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMilleporidae (Family)
Status accepted
Rank Family
Typetaxon Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMillepora Linnaeus, 1758
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCapitata
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMilleporadae Fleming, 1828 (incorrect formation of family name)
Source  original description (of Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMilleporadae Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A History of British Animals, Exhibiting the Descriptive Characters and Systematical Arrangement of the Genera and Species of Quadrupeds, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; Including the Indigenous, Extirpated, and Extinct Kinds, Together with Periodical and Occasional Visitants. Bell & Bradfute, Edinburgh. pp. 1–565., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): 528 [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Japanese Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorアナサンゴモドキ  [details]
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[sort alpha..]		 Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMillepora Linnaeus, 1758

Genus Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPalmipora de Blainville, 1830 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMillepora Linnaeus, 1758
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Fossil range recent + fossil
Feedingtype  carnivore [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank  
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Note 
From editor or global species database
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDiagnosis 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]
ImageChecked: verified by a taxonomic editor 
Family Milleporidae - Genus Millepora
Family Milleporidae - ...
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196235
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-12-30 14:07:12Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-04-28 06:22:10Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2009). Milleporidae Fleming, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196235 on 2017-07-09
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