Merulinidae

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| image_caption = Astrea curta

| taxon = Merulinidae

| authority = Verrill, 1865 {{cite WoRMS |author=WoRMS |year=2010 |title=Merulinidae: Verrill, 1865 |id=196102 |accessdate=2015-03-19}}

| subdivision_ranks = Genera

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Pectiniidae
Trachyphyllidae Wells, 1956
Trachyphylliidae Verrill, 1901

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Merulinidae is a family of reef-building stony corals.

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

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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
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

Category:Scleractinia

Category:Cnidarian families

Category:Taxa named by Addison Emery Verrill