Scleractinia taxon details
Cyathophoridae Vaughan & Wells, 1943 †
1438318 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1438318)
accepted
Family
- Genus Bathycoenia Tomes, 1883 †
- Genus Cyathophora Michelin, 1843 †
- Genus Holocystis Lonsdale, 1849 †
- Genus Miophora Chevalier, 1963 †
- Genus Nowakocoenia Kolodziej, 2000 †
- Genus Miyakopora Eguchi, 1936 † accepted as Cyathophora Michelin, 1843 † (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., available online at https://doi.org/10.1130/spe44-p1 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Cyathophoridae Vaughan & Wells, 1943 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1438318 on 2026-06-26
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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., available online at https://doi.org/10.1130/spe44-p1 [details]
basis of record Beauvais L. (1981). Sur la taxinomie des Madréporaires mésozoïques. <em>Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.</em> 25 (3-4): 345-360,. [details]
basis of record 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 Ramose or plocoid, rarely cerioid. Colony formation by extratentacular budding. Septa rarely in more than 2 cycles, slightly exsert. No columella. Endothecal dissepiments thin and tabulate. Coenosteum vesicular or tabular, surface spinose. [details]Remark This family includes the junior synonym Pentacoeniidae Loeser, 2014, p. 46 (ex Pentacoenioida Duncan, 1884). For more information regarding taxonomic decision, see Remarks under Placocoeniidae Loser, 2012. [details]
