Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Phylum: Cnidaria
Classis: Anthozoa
Subclassis: Hexacorallia
Ordo: Scleractinia
Familia: Siderastreidae
Genera: Coscinaraea - Pironastrea - Psammocora - Siderastrea
Name
Siderastreidae Vaughan & Wells, 1943
References
Vaughan,T.W. & J.W. Wells (1943) "Revision of the Suborders, Families and Genera of the Scleractina"; Geological Society of America Special Paper 44.
Siderastreidae is a family of reef building stony corals. Members of the family include symbiotic algae called Zooxanthellae in their tissues which help provide their energy requirements.
Description
Members of this family are colonial, hermatypic (reef-building) corals. The corals vary in form and include massive, thickly encrusting, columnar, and irregular forms. The corallites are linked by flowing septa that have granular margins and that are fused in the centre to give fan-shaped or star-shaped groupings. The corallites do not project from the surface of the coral and have ill-defined walls formed from thickened septa.[2][3]
Genera
The World Register of Marine Species includes the following genera in the family:[1][2]
†Pironastraea d'Achiardi, 1875
†Pironastraea indica Duncan, 1880
Pseudosiderastrea Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935[4]
Pseudosiderastrea formosa Pichon, Chuang & Chen, 2012
Pseudosiderastrea tayami Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935
Siderastrea de Blainville, 1830 – starlet corals[5]
†Siderastrea grandis Duncan, 1863
†Siderastrea radcliffi Faustino, 1931
Siderastrea radians (Pallas, 1766) – lesser starlet coral or shallow-water starlet coral
Siderastrea savignyana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850
Siderastrea siderea (Ellis & Solander, 1768) – massive starlet coral or round starlet coral
Siderastrea stellata Verrill, 1868
References
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2018). "Siderastreidae". WoRMS. World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved 2018-08-23.
Family Siderastreidae WetWebMedia.com. Retrieved 2011-12-18.
Coral Hub Retrieved 2011-12-18.
Pseudosiderastrea, WoRMS
Siderastrea, WoRMS
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