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WoRMS taxon detailsPoritidae Gray, 1840
marine,
Gray, J.E. (1840). Poritidae. <em>Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum.</em> 41: 54-84. [details]
Status The oft-cited Gray, 1842, p. 135, is not the first use of the family Poritidae. The name appeared two years earlier in the...
Status The oft-cited Gray, 1842, p. 135, is not the first use of the family Poritidae. The name appeared two years earlier in the same series of the Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum (Gray, J.E., South rooms of the north gallery. Syn. Cont. Brit. Mus., 41, 54–84) in a similar list of collections in the museum's north gallery. [details] Description Colonial, hermatypic, mostly extant. Colonies usually massive, laminar or ramose. Corallites have a wide size range but are...
Description Colonial, hermatypic, mostly extant. Colonies usually massive, laminar or ramose. Corallites have a wide size range but are usually compacted with little or no coenosteum. Walls and septa are porous. Poritidae is an isolated family. It is essentially a heterogeneous assembly of distantly related genera. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Poritidae Gray, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196105 on 2024-12-21
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original description
Gray, J.E. (1840). Poritidae. <em>Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum.</em> 41: 54-84. [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [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 Kitano YF, Benzoni F, Arrigoni R, Shirayama Y, Wallace CC, Fukami H. (2014). A Phylogeny of the Family Poritidae (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) Based on Molecular and Morphological Analyses. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 9(5): e98406., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098406 [details] additional source Foster AB. (1986). Neogene Paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic 3. The family Poritidae (Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology. 90 (325): 47-123, pls. 15-38.</em> [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis [from Wells 1956] Colonial, hermatypic. Colony formation by extratentacular budding. Corallites mostly united closely without coensoteum, limited by one or more synapticular rings. Septa (except Alveopora) formed by 3 to 8 nearly vertical trabeculae, loosely united, with more or less vertical perforations. Innermost trabeculae of certain septa differentiated as 'pali'. A single columella trabecula. [details]Status The oft-cited Gray, 1842, p. 135, is not the first use of the family Poritidae. The name appeared two years earlier in the same series of the Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum (Gray, J.E., South rooms of the north gallery. Syn. Cont. Brit. Mus., 41, 54–84) in a similar list of collections in the museum's north gallery. [details] Unreviewed
Description Colonial, hermatypic, mostly extant. Colonies usually massive, laminar or ramose. Corallites have a wide size range but are usually compacted with little or no coenosteum. Walls and septa are porous. Poritidae is an isolated family. It is essentially a heterogeneous assembly of distantly related genera. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
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