Astrocoeniidae
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hexacorallia |
| Order: | Scleractinia |
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| Family: | Astrocoeniidae Koby, 1890 [1] |
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Astrocoeniidae is a family of stony corals. The family is distributed across the tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide.[2]
Description[]
Astrocoeniids include both hermatypic and ahermatypic (reef-building) colonial corals, both with and without symbiotic zooxanthellae. The family is made up of both branching and encrusting species which can range in size from less than 5 cm (2.0 in) to more than 30 m (98 ft) across.[2]
Species[]
The World Register of Marine Species includes the following genera and species in the family:[3]
- Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †
- Duncan, 1880 †
- Duncan, 1880 †
- Duncan, 1873 †
- Duncan, 1863 †
- Duncan, 1880 †
- Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941
- Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941
- Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
- Duncan, 1873 †
- (Lamarck, 1816) - synonym, Stephanocoenia michelini
- Duncan, 1880 †
- Duncan, 1880 †
- Duncan, 1868 †
- Duncan, 1863 †
- Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 †
- Duncan, 1880 †
- Duncan, 1880 †
- Michelin, 1842 †
- Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935
- (Ehrenberg, 1834)
- Veron, 1990
- (Bassett-Smith, 1890)
- Benzoni & Pichon, 2004
References[]
- ^ Vanden Berghe, Edward (2010). "Astrocoeniidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-05-24.
- ^ a b Family Astrocoeniidae Classification of Scleractinian (Stony) Corals. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
- ^ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Astrocoeniidae Koby, 1890". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2019-04-22.
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