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WoRMS taxon detailsAcroporidae Verrill, 1901
196095 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196095)
accepted
Family
Isoporidae Vaughan, 1902 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine,
Verrill A. E. (1901). Variations and nomenclature of Bermudian, West Indian and Brazilian reef corals, with notes on various Indo-Pacific corals. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 11: 63-168., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13464046 [details]
Description Colonial, hermatypic, mostly extant. Colonies have all growth forms known for hermatypic corals.
Corallites (except...
Description Colonial, hermatypic, mostly extant. Colonies have all growth forms known for hermatypic corals. Corallites (except Astreopora) are small with septa in two cycles or less, columellae are poorly developed. Related families Pocilloporidae and Astrocoeniidae. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
WoRMS (2025). Acroporidae Verrill, 1901. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196095 on 2025-04-03
Date action by 2009-08-11 09:20:33Z changed db_admin
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Verrill A. E. (1901). Variations and nomenclature of Bermudian, West Indian and Brazilian reef corals, with notes on various Indo-Pacific corals. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 11: 63-168., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13464046 [details] original description (of Isoporidae Vaughan, 1902) Vaughan TW. (1902). The stony corals of the Porto Rican waters. <em>Bulletin of the United States Fish Commision for 1900.</em> 20: 289-320, pls. 1-38. [details] basis of record 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] Otheradditional source
Beauvais L. (1981). Sur la taxinomie des Madréporaires mésozoïques. <em>Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.</em> 25 (3-4): 345-360,. [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details] additional source Wells JW. (1956). Scleractinia. In: Moore RC (ed) Treatise on invertebrate paleontology F. Coelenterata. <em>Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press.</em> pp. F328–F440. [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Colonial, massive or ramose colonies by extratentacular budding; corallites small, synapticulothecate, pseudocostate, slightly differentiated from coenosteum. Septa non-exsert, in two cycles, formed by simple spiniform trabeculae projecting inward and upward from vertical mural trabeculae, commonly fusing to form laminae. Columella absent or trabecular and weak. Dissepiments thin and tabular when developed. Coenosteum extensive, light reticulate, flaky, generally spinose or striate on surface. Polyps hermaphrodite with internal or external fertilization followed by internal or external larval development respectively. [details]Unreviewed
Description Colonial, hermatypic, mostly extant. Colonies have all growth forms known for hermatypic corals. Corallites (except Astreopora) are small with septa in two cycles or less, columellae are poorly developed. Related families Pocilloporidae and Astrocoeniidae. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
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