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Stylasteridae Gray, 1847

Stylaster roseus (Pallas, 1766): Stylasteridae
Stylaster roseus (Pallas, 1766): Stylasteridae

22805  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:22805)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Medusozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hydrozoa (Class)
  6. Hydroidolina (Subclass)
  7. Anthoathecata (Order)
  8. Filifera (Suborder)
  9. Stylasteridae (Family)
accepted
Family
Adeloporinae Cairns, 1982 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Distichoporinae Stechow, 1921 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Errininae Stechow, 1921 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Errininae Hickson, 1912 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Stylasterinae Gray, 1847 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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  1. Genus Adelopora Cairns, 1982
  2. Genus Astya Stechow, 1921
  3. Genus Calyptopora Boschma, 1968
  4. Genus Cheiloporidion Cairns, 1983
  5. Genus Componospina Cairns, 2015
  6. Genus Conopora Moseley, 1879
  7. Genus Crypthelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
  8. Genus Cyclohelia Cairns, 1991
  9. Genus Distichopora Lamarck, 1816
  10. Genus Errina Gray, 1835
  11. Genus Errinopora Fisher, 1931
  12. Genus Errinopsis Broch, 1951
  13. Genus Gyropora Boschma, 1960
  14. Genus Lepidopora Pourtalès, 1871
  15. Genus Leptohelia Lindner, Cairns & Zibrowius, 2014
  16. Genus Paraconopora Cairns, 2015
  17. Genus Paraerrina Broch, 1942
  18. Genus Phalangopora Kirkpatrick, 1887
  19. Genus Pliobothrus Pourtalès, 1868
  20. Genus Pseudocrypthelia Cairns, 1983
  21. Genus Sporadopora Moseley, 1879
  22. Genus Stellapora Cairns, 1983
  23. Genus Stenohelia Kent, 1870
  24. Genus Stephanohelia Cairns, 1991
  25. Genus Stylantheca Fisher, 1931
  26. Genus Stylaster Gray, 1831
  27. Genus Systemapora Cairns, 1991
  28. Genus Acanthopora Moseley, 1876 accepted as Stellapora Cairns, 1983 (junior homonym)
  29. Subfamily Adeloporinae Cairns, 1982 accepted as Stylasteridae Gray, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  30. Genus Allopora Ehrenberg, 1834 accepted as Stylaster Gray, 1831 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  31. Genus Astylus Moseley, 1879 accepted as Astya Stechow, 1921 (preoccupied by Astylus Laporte, 1836 [Coleoptera])
  32. Genus Cryptohelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 accepted as Crypthelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 (synonymy)
  33. Genus Cyclopora Verrill, 1866 accepted as Stylaster Gray, 1831
  34. Subfamily Distichoporinae Stechow, 1921 accepted as Stylasteridae Gray, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  35. Genus Endhelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Crypthelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 (unaccepted > junior objective synonym)
  36. Genus Endohelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Endhelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Crypthelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
  37. Subfamily Errininae Stechow, 1921 accepted as Stylasteridae Gray, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  38. Subfamily Errininae Hickson, 1912 accepted as Stylasteridae Gray, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  39. Genus Inferiolabiata Broch, 1951 accepted as Paraerrina Broch, 1942
  40. Genus Labiopora Moseley, 1879 accepted as Errina Gray, 1835 (synonymy)
  41. Genus Lepidotheca Cairns, 1983 accepted as Paraerrina Broch, 1942
  42. Genus Polypora Moseley, 1876 accepted as Sporadopora Moseley, 1879 (junior homonym)
  43. Genus Protoerrina Broch, 1935 accepted as Errinopora Fisher, 1931 (synonymy)
  44. Genus Spinipora Moseley, 1879 accepted as Stellapora Cairns, 1983 (junior homonym)
  45. Genus Steganopora Hickson & England, 1905 accepted as Pliobothrus Pourtalès, 1868 (synonymy)
  46. Subfamily Stylasterinae Gray, 1847 accepted as Stylasteridae Gray, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  47. Genus Stylasteridae incertae sedis (temporary name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Gray J.E. (1847). An outline of an arrangement of stony corals. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 19: 120-128., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2266284
page(s): 127 [details] 
WoRMS (2025). Stylasteridae Gray, 1847. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=22805 on 2025-07-16
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2008-01-10 07:31:11Z
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Decock, Wim
2009-04-28 12:00:23Z
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Schuchert, Peter
2010-11-21 16:41:40Z
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Cairns, Stephen
2021-04-30 08:07:07Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2024-10-23 11:40:56Z
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Schuchert, Peter

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Nomenclature

original description Gray J.E. (1847). An outline of an arrangement of stony corals. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 19: 120-128., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2266284
page(s): 127 [details] 

original description (of Adeloporinae Cairns, 1982) Cairns, S.D. (1982). A new subfamily of operculate stylasterine (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa) from the subantarctic. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 16:71-81.
page(s): 71 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Distichoporinae Stechow, 1921) Stechow, E. (1921d). Neue Genera und Species von Hydrozoen und anderen Evertebraten. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 87: 248-265., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45494398 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Errininae Stechow, 1921) Stechow, E. (1921d). Neue Genera und Species von Hydrozoen und anderen Evertebraten. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 87: 248-265., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45494398 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Errininae Hickson, 1912) Hickson SJ. (1912). On the hydrocoralline genus, Errina. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1912: 876-896, pls. 94-96. [details] 

basis of record Cairns, S.D. (1992). A generic revision of the Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 3. Keys to the genera. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 49(1-2): 538-545. [1991]. published 27 Jan 1992. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Taxonomy

taxonomy source Cairns, S.D. (1984). A generic revision of the Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 2: Phylogenetic analysis. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 35(1): 38-53. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

taxonomy source Cairns, S.D. (1987). Evolutionary trends in the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). <em>In: J. Bouillon, F. Boero, F. Cicogna & P.F.S. Cornelius, eds., Modern trends in the Systematics, Ecology and Evolution of Hydroids and Hydromedusae.</em> :257-274. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

redescription Cairns, S.D. (1983). A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 33(2): 427-508. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Ecology

ecology source Cairns, S.D. (1992). In: J. Bouillon, F. Boero, F. Cicogna, J.M. Gili & R.G. Hughes, (eds.). Worldwide distribution of the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). <em>Aspects of Hydrozoan Biology Scientia Marina.</em> 56(2-3): 125-130. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details] 

additional source Bouillon, J.; Gravili, C.; Pagès, F.; Gili, J.-M.; Boero, F. (2006). An introduction to Hydrozoa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 194. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-580-1. 591 + 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Cairns, S.D. (2015). Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Anthoathecata) of the New Caledonian Region. <em>Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 28. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 207. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum: Paris.</em> 361 + 1 cd-rom pp., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/27379
page(s): 12-19; note: Key to genera; comments on functional morphology and polychaete commensalism [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Boschma H. (1956). Milleporina and Stylasterina. In: Moore RC (ed) Treatise on invertebrate paleontology F. Coelenterata. <em>Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press.</em> F90–F106. [details] 

subsequent type designation Cairns, S.D. (1991). Catalog of the type specimens of stony corals (Milleporidae, Stylasteridae, Scleractinia) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 514:1- 59. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
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Diagnosis Hydroid colony erect, branched, usually flabellate, more rarely encrusting, with a thick calcareous exoskeleton (coenosteum); polyps polymorphic and retractile; gastrozooids with one whorl of filiform tentacles, exceptionally without tentacles; bottom of gastric cavity with or without an upright pointed or rounded toothed spine (gastrostyle); dactylozooids filiform, without tentacles, with or without dactylostyle; gastrozooids and dactylozooids retractable into special skeletal depressions: gastropores and dactylopores; gastro- and dactylozooids either irregularly distributed over colony, or limited to certain regions of colony, or often arranged in circles (cyclosystems) where one gastrozooid is surrounded by several dactylozooids; gonophores as reduced fixed sporosacs and developed inside vesicles (ampullae) covered by or buried in coenosteum. [details]
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LanguageName 
English sylasterine hydrocoralslace corals  [details]
German StylasteridenHydrokorallenFiligrankorallen  [details]
Italian stilasteridi  [details]
Japanese サンゴモドキ科  [details]
Lithuanian hidrokoralai  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Στυλαστερίδες  [details]
Norwegian hydrokorallfamilie  [details]
Russian коралллы  [details]
Turkish bağcık mercanlarıgiller  [details]
Ukrainian Стиластериди  [details]
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