Astrocoeniidae is a family of stony corals. The family is distributed across the tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide.
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 to more than across.
Species
The World Register of Marine Species includes the following genera and species in the family:
- Astrocoenia<small> Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 â </small>
- Astrocoenia blanfordi<small> Duncan, 1880 â </small>
- Astrocoenia cellulata<small> Duncan, 1880 â </small>
- Astrocoenia dachiardii<small> Duncan, 1873 â </small>
- Astrocoenia decaphylla<small> Duncan, 1863 â </small>
- Astrocoenia gibbosa<small> Duncan, 1880 â </small>
- Palauastrea<small> Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941</small>
- Palauastrea ramosa<small> Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941</small>
- Stephanocoenia <small>Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848</small>
- Stephanocoenia incrustans<small> Duncan, 1873 â </small>
- Stephanocoenia intersepta<small> (Lamarck, 1816)</small> - synonym, Stephanocoenia michelini
- Stephanocoenia maxima<small> Duncan, 1880 â </small>
- Stephanocoenia microtuberculata<small> Duncan, 1880 â </small>
- Stephanocoenia reussi<small> Duncan, 1868 â </small>
- Stephanocoenia tenuis<small> Duncan, 1863 â </small>
- Stylocoenia <small>Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 â </small>
- Stylocoenia maxima<small> Duncan, 1880 â </small>
- Stylocoenia ranikoti<small> Duncan, 1880 â </small>
- Stylocoenia taurinensis<small> Michelin, 1842 â </small>
- Stylocoeniella <small>Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935</small>
- Stylocoeniella armata<small> (Ehrenberg, 1834)</small>
- Stylocoeniella cocosensis<small> Veron, 1990</small>
- Stylocoeniella guentheri<small> (Bassett-Smith, 1890)</small>
- Stylocoeniella nikei<small> Benzoni & Pichon, 2004</small>
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