All the genera in this family are colonial, reef-building corals. Skeletal structures are similar to those of Faviidae but are highly fused, without paliform lobes. The valleys are superficial or may be indistinct because of fan-like spreading or contortions in the ridges. Faviidae and Trachyphylliidae are the most closely related families.[1]
merulinidae, family, reef, building, stony, corals, astrea, curta, scientific, classification, domain, eukaryota, kingdom, animalia, phylum, cnidaria, class, hexacorallia, order, scleractinia, family, verrill, 1865, genera, text, synonyms, listpectiniidae, tra. Merulinidae is a family of reef building stony corals Merulinidae Astrea curta Scientific classification Domain Eukaryota Kingdom Animalia Phylum Cnidaria Class Hexacorallia Order Scleractinia Family MerulinidaeVerrill 1865 1 Genera See text Synonyms ListPectiniidae Trachyphyllidae Wells 1956 Trachyphylliidae Verrill 1901Characteristics editAll the genera in this family are colonial reef building corals Skeletal structures are similar to those of Faviidae but are highly fused without paliform lobes The valleys are superficial or may be indistinct because of fan like spreading or contortions in the ridges Faviidae and Trachyphylliidae are the most closely related families 1 Genera edit nbsp Favites pentagona The World Register of Marine Species includes these genera in the family 1 AstreaLamarck 1801 AustralogyraVeron amp Pichon 1982 BoninastreaYabe amp Sugiyama 1935 CaulastraeaDana 1846 CoelastreaVerrill 1866 CyphastreaMilne Edwards amp Haime 1848 DipsastraeaBlainville 1830 EchinoporaLamarck 1816 ErythrastreaPichon Scheer amp Pillai 1983 FavitesLink 1807 GoniastreaMilne Edwards amp Haime 1848 HydnophoraFischer von Waldheim 1807 Hydnophyllia Reis 1889 Isastraea Milne Edwards amp Haime 1851 LeptoriaMilne Edwards amp Haime 1848 MerulinaEhrenberg 1834 MycediumMilne Edwards amp Haime 1851 OrbicellaDana 1846 OulophylliaMilne Edwards amp Haime 1848 ParagoniastreaHuang Benzoni amp Budd 2014 Paraleptoria Budd amp Bosellini 2016 ParamontastraeaHuang amp Budd 2014 PectiniaBlainville 1825 PhysophylliaDuncan 1884 PlatygyraEhrenberg 1834 ScapophylliaMilne Edwards amp Haime 1848 TrachyphylliaMilne Edwards amp Haime 1849References edit a b c WoRMS 2010 Merulinidae Verrill 1865 WoRMS World Register of Marine Species Retrieved 2015 03 19 nbsp This Scleractinia related article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Merulinidae amp oldid 1067805996, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
