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Merulinidae

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Higher classification
  
Faviina

Order
  
Scleractinia

Phylum
  
Cnidaria

Rank
  
Family

Subclass
  
Hexacorallia

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Similar
  
Scleractinia, Mussidae, Oculinidae, Poritidae, Pocilloporidae

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The Merulinidae are a family of reef-building stony corals.

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Characteristics

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.

Genera

The World Register of Marine Species includes these genera in the family:

  • Astrea Lamarck, 1801
  • Australogyra Veron & Pichon, 1982
  • Boninastrea Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935
  • Caulastraea Dana, 1846
  • Coelastrea Verrill, 1866
  • Cyphastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
  • Dipsastraea Blainville, 1830
  • Echinopora Lamarck, 1816
  • Erythrastrea Pichon, Scheer & Pillai, 1983
  • Favites Link, 1807
  • Goniastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
  • Hydnophora Fischer von Waldheim, 1807
  • Leptoria Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
  • Merulina Ehrenberg, 1834
  • Mycedium Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
  • Orbicella Dana, 1846
  • Oulophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
  • Paragoniastrea Huang, Benzoni & Budd, 2014
  • Paramontastraea Huang & Budd, 2014
  • Pectinia Blainville, 1825
  • Physophyllia Duncan, 1884
  • Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834
  • Scapophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
  • Trachyphyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

    • References

    Merulinidae Wikipedia
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