Stylasteridae, also known as lace corals, is a family of colonial hydrozoans with a calcified skeleton.[1][2] They first appeared 65 million years ago in deep waters. About 10% of the species have adapted to shallow water.[3] In shallow reefs they can grow up to 25 cm tall × 30 cm wide,[4] but some species in deeper waters can reach 1 meter.[5]
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| Stylaster nobilis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Hydrozoa |
| Order: | Anthoathecata |
| Suborder: | Filifera |
| Family: | Stylasteridae Gray, 1847 [1] |
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Genera edit
According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following genera belong to this family:[1]
- Adelopora Cairns, 1982
- Astya Stechow, 1921d
- Axoporella †
- Calyptopora Boschma, 1968
- Cheiloporidion Cairns, 1983
- Congregopora Nielsen, 1919 †
- Conopora Moseley, 1879
- Crypthelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
- Cyclohelia Cairns, 1991
- Distichopora Lamarck, 1816
- Errina Gray, 1835
- Errinopora Fisher, 1938
- Errinopsis Broch, 1951
- Gyropora Boschma, 1960
- Inferiolabiata Broch, 1951
- Lepidopora Pourtalès, 1871
- Lepidotheca Cairns, 1983
- Leptohelia Lindner, Cairns & Zibrowius, 2014[6]
- Paraerrina Broch, 1942
- Phalangopora Kirkpatrick, 1887
- Pliobothrus Pourtalès, 1868
- Pseudocrypthelia Cairns, 1983
- Sporadopora Moseley, 1879
- Stellapora Cairns, 1983
- Stenohelia Kent, 1870
- Stephanohelia Cairns, 1991
- Stylantheca Fischer, 1931
- Stylaster Gray, 1831
- Systemapora Cairns, 1991
References edit
- ^ a b c d "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Stylasteridae Gray, 1847". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
- ^ The First Deep-Sea Stylasterid (Hydrozoa, Stylasteridae) of the Red Sea - MDPI
- ^ Invasion of the Lace Corals
- ^ Remarkable population structure in the tropical Atlantic lace corals Stylaster roseus (Pallas, 1766) and Stylaster blatteus (Boschma, 1961)
- ^ Global Diversity of the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Athecatae)
- ^ Lindner, Cairns & Zibrowius (2014). "Leptohelia flexibilis gen. nov. et sp. nov., a remarkable deep-sea stylasterid (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from the southwest Pacific" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3900 (4): 581–591. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3900.4.8. PMID 25543758.
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