WoRDSS banner


Deep-Sea taxon details

Oculinidae Gray, 1847

135078  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135078)

accepted
Family

Ordering

  • Alphabetically
  • By status

Children Display

marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Gray JE. (1847). An outline of an arrangement of stony corals. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 19: 120-128. [details]   
Description Colonial, hermatypic and ahermatypic, extant and fossil. Corallites are thickened and linked by a smooth coenosteum. Septa...  
Description Colonial, hermatypic and ahermatypic, extant and fossil. Corallites are thickened and linked by a smooth coenosteum. Septa are very exsert.
Related family is Rhizangiidae. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
Deep-Sea (2024). Oculinidae Gray, 1847. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135078 on 2024-04-18
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Oculinidae Gray, 1847. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135078 on 2024-04-18
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
2010-12-04 01:41:22Z
changed
2022-06-25 08:07:44Z
changed
2023-12-09 16:57:16Z
changed

original description Gray JE. (1847). An outline of an arrangement of stony corals. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 19: 120-128. [details]   

basis of record Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1980). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part III. Family Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectinidae, Caryophyllidae, Dendrophylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 4: 1-459. [details]   

additional source Oppenheim P. (1930). Die Anthozoen der Gosauschichten in der Ostalpen. <em>Oppenheim, Berlin-Lichterfelde.</em> i-xviii, 1-576. [details]   

additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]   

identification resource Cairns, S.D. & M. Kitahara. (2012). An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Recent azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with an attached glossary. <em>ZooKeys.</em> 227: 1-47., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.227.3612 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
Unknown type UNMdP [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Corallum colonial, usually forming dendroid colonies by extratentacular budding; septa laminar, composed of one fan system of closely spaced, simple trabeculae resulting in a smooth axial margin; septothecate, externally thickened by dense coenosteum; endothecal dissepiments present or replaced by stereome; synapticulae absent; septa usually hexamerally arranged; columella and pali absent or present. [details]

From other sources
Description Colonial, hermatypic and ahermatypic, extant and fossil. Corallites are thickened and linked by a smooth coenosteum. Septa are very exsert.
Related family is Rhizangiidae. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
LanguageName 
Japanese ビワガライシ科  [details]
INDEEP logo NHM logo NOC logo Soton logo WoRMS logo OBIS logo Plymouth University\'s Marine Institute logo
Website hosted & developed by VLIZ · contact: WoRDSS Team