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Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Cnidaria
Classis: Anthozoa
Subclassis: Hexacorallia
Ordo: Scleractinia
Subordo: Fungiina
Familia: Micrabaciidae
Genera: †Micrabacia – Leptopenus – Letepsammia – Rhombopsammia – Stephanophyllia
Name

Micrabaciidae Vaughan, 1905
References

Keller, N.B. 1977: New species of the genus Leptopenus and some peculiarities of deep-sea ahermatypic corals. Trudy Instituta Okeanologii, 108: 37–43.
Owens, J.M. 1986b: On the elevation of the Stephanophyllia subgenus Letepsammia to generic rank. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 99(3): 486–488.
Owens, J.M. 1984a: Evolutionary trends in the Micrabaciidae: an argument in favor of preadaptation. Geologos, 11(1): 87–93.

Micrabaciidae is a family of marine stony corals of the order Scleractinia.

The World Register of Marine Species lists the following genera:[1]

Leptopenus Moseley, 1881
Letepsammia Yabe & Eguchi, 1932
Micrabacia† Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
Rhombopsammia Owens, 1986
Stephanophyllia Michelin, 1841

References

World Register of Marine Species (2018). "Micrabaciidae Vaughan, 1905". Retrieved 30 July 2018.

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