WoRMS taxon details
Thamnasteriidae Vaughan & Wells, 1943 †
Corbariastraeidae Beauvais, 1982 † · unaccepted (synonymy)
- Genus Aggomorphastraea Alloiteau, 1958 †
- Genus Corbariastraea Alloiteau, 1952 †
- Genus Delphinastraea Alloiteau, 1952 †
- Genus Mesomorpha Pratz, 1882 †
- Genus Polyastropsis Alloiteau, 1957 †
- Genus Recticostastraea Stanley & Whalen, 1989 †
- Genus Stereocoenia Alloiteau, 1952 †
- Genus Styloseris Ferry, 1870 †
- Genus Thalamocaeniopsis Alloiteau, 1953 †
- Genus Thamnasteria Le Sauvage, 1823 †
- Genus Centrastraea d'Orbigny, 1849 † accepted as Thamnasteria Le Sauvage, 1823 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Centrastrea d'Orbigny, 1849 † accepted as Thamnasteria Le Sauvage, 1823 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Dactylastrea d'Orbigny, 1849 † accepted as Thamnasteria Le Sauvage, 1823 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Thamnastraea Le Sauvage, 1824 † accepted as Thamnasteria Le Sauvage, 1823 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, misspelling)
- Genus Thamnastrea Le Sauvage, 1824 † accepted as Thamnasteria Le Sauvage, 1823 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Vaughan TW, Wells JW. (1943). Revision of the suborders, families and genera of the Scleractinia. <em>Special Papers of the Geological Society of America.</em> 44: 1-363. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Thamnasteriidae Vaughan & Wells, 1943 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1348209 on 2024-07-16
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original description
Vaughan TW, Wells JW. (1943). Revision of the suborders, families and genera of the Scleractinia. <em>Special Papers of the Geological Society of America.</em> 44: 1-363. [details]
additional source Beauvais L. (1981). Sur la taxinomie des Madréporaires mésozoïques. <em>Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.</em> 25 (3-4): 345-360,. [details]
additional source Beauvais L. (1981). Sur la taxinomie des Madréporaires mésozoïques. <em>Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.</em> 25 (3-4): 345-360,. [details]
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Radial elements are compact or subcompact biseptal sheets (presently we know only thamnasterioid candidates for this family) frequently anastomosed at their inner edge or in a contratingent manner. The inner edge of septa is thinned or rhopaloid, often attached to the columella by a trabecular lobe for larger septa. The lateral faces are covered by granules. The more common situation is an arrangement of flattened granules pointing horizontally (never upward as in typical pennulae) more or less horizontally and vertically aligned. But variations are wide and the horizontal alignment is far from strict, granules are sometimes not flattened but a sharp point. These granules do not alternate in level between neighbouring septa as it is the rule in typical pennular models. The distal edge shows regular small teeth. Trabecules are arranged in fan system and their structure is branching. Branches of trabeculae are not systematically aligned perpendicularly to the septal plan as in Montlivaltiidae. Diameter of trabeculae: 75-225 _m. Septa are organised in radial symmetry in which the hexameral arrangement cannot be easily recognised. A bilateral symmetry is often marked by anastomosing septa. This bilateral distortion is more accentuated in stretched thamnasterioid structures than in isotropic thamnasterioid ones. Synapticulae present, especially in the outer region of the corallite. Vesicular dissepiments constitute a superficial floor for the soft body that deepens around the styliform columella. [details]
