Astrocoeniidae is a family of stony corals. The family is distributed across the tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide.Family Astrocoeniidae Classification of Scleractinian (Stony) Corals. Retrieved 2011-12-23.
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 Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 † Astrocoenia blanfordi Duncan, 1880 † Astrocoenia cellulata Duncan, 1880 † Astrocoenia dachiardii Duncan, 1873 † Astrocoenia decaphylla Duncan, 1863 † Astrocoenia gibbosa Duncan, 1880 † Palauastrea Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941 Palauastrea ramosa Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941 Stephanocoenia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Stephanocoenia incrustans Duncan, 1873 † Stephanocoenia intersepta (Lamarck, 1816) - synonym, Stephanocoenia michelini Stephanocoenia maxima Duncan, 1880 † Stephanocoenia microtuberculata Duncan, 1880 † Stephanocoenia reussi Duncan, 1868 † Stephanocoenia tenuis Duncan, 1863 † Stylocoenia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 † Stylocoenia maxima Duncan, 1880 † Stylocoenia ranikoti Duncan, 1880 † Stylocoenia taurinensis Michelin, 1842 † Stylocoeniella Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935 Stylocoeniella armata (Ehrenberg, 1834) Stylocoeniella cocosensis Veron, 1990 Stylocoeniella guentheri (Bassett-Smith, 1890) Stylocoeniella nikei Benzoni & Pichon, 2004
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