Merulinidae

Family of corals

Merulinidae

Astrea curta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Cnidaria
Class:  | Hexacorallia
Order:  | Scleractinia
Family:  | Merulinidae
Verrill, 1865 [1]
Genera

See text

Synonyms

List

* Pectiniidae
* Trachyphyllidae Wells, 1956
* Trachyphylliidae Verrill, 1901

Merulinidae is a family of reef-building stony corals.

## Characteristics[edit]

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]

## Genera[edit]

Favites pentagona

The World Register of Marine Species includes these genera in the family:[1]

* 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
* Hydnophyllia † Reis, 1889
* Isastraea† Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
* 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
* Paraleptoria† Budd & Bosellini, 2016
* Paramontastraea Huang & Budd, 2014
* Pectinia Blainville, 1825
* Physophyllia Duncan, 1884
* Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834
* Scapophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
* Trachyphyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

## References[edit]

1. ^ a b c WoRMS (2010). "Merulinidae: Verrill, 1865". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2015-03-19.

Taxon identifiers|

* Wikidata: Q3953422
* Wikispecies: Merulinidae
* ADW: Merulinidae
* AFD: Merulinidae
* CoL: 8ZXK5
* Fossilworks: 107145
* GBIF: 8219
* iNaturalist: 85893
* IRMNG: 100502
* ITIS: 53433
* NCBI: 46736
* NZOR: 938957cf-cd65-4828-b281-288437d6cba6
* Open Tree of Life: 442914
* uBio: 253464
* WoRMS: 196102

|

This Scleractinia-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template