Family of corals
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]
- Astrocoenia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †
- Astrocoenia blanfordi Duncan, 1880 †
- Astrocoenia cellulata Duncan, 1880 †
- Astrocoenia dachiardii Duncan, 1873 †
- Astrocoenia decaphylla Duncan, 1863 †
- Astrocoenia gibbosa Duncan, 1880 †
- Palauastrea Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941
- Palauastrea ramosa Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941
- Stephanocoenia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
- Stephanocoenia incrustans Duncan, 1873 †
- Stephanocoenia intersepta (Lamarck, 1816) - synonym, Stephanocoenia michelini
- Stephanocoenia maxima Duncan, 1880 †
- Stephanocoenia microtuberculata Duncan, 1880 †
- Stephanocoenia reussi Duncan, 1868 †
- Stephanocoenia tenuis Duncan, 1863 †
- Stylocoenia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 †
- Stylocoenia maxima Duncan, 1880 †
- Stylocoenia ranikoti Duncan, 1880 †
- Stylocoenia taurinensis Michelin, 1842 †
- Stylocoeniella Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935
- Stylocoeniella armata (Ehrenberg, 1834)
- Stylocoeniella cocosensis Veron, 1990
- Stylocoeniella guentheri (Bassett-Smith, 1890)
- Stylocoeniella nikei Benzoni & Pichon, 2004