WoRMS taxon details
Stylasteridae Gray, 1847
Adeloporinae Cairns, 1982 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Distichoporinae Stechow, 1921 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Errininae Stechow, 1921 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Errininae Hickson, 1912 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Stylasterinae Gray, 1847 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Genus Adelopora Cairns, 1982
- Genus Astya Stechow, 1921
- Genus Calyptopora Boschma, 1968
- Genus Cheiloporidion Cairns, 1983
- Genus Componospina Cairns, 2015
- Genus Conopora Moseley, 1879
- Genus Crypthelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
- Genus Cyclohelia Cairns, 1991
- Genus Distichopora Lamarck, 1816
- Genus Errina Gray, 1835
- Genus Errinopora Fisher, 1931
- Genus Errinopsis Broch, 1951
- Genus Gyropora Boschma, 1960
- Genus Lepidopora Pourtalès, 1871
- Genus Leptohelia Lindner, Cairns & Zibrowius, 2014
- Genus Paraconopora Cairns, 2015
- Genus Paraerrina Broch, 1942
- Genus Phalangopora Kirkpatrick, 1887
- Genus Pliobothrus Pourtalès, 1868
- Genus Pseudocrypthelia Cairns, 1983
- Genus Sporadopora Moseley, 1879
- Genus Stellapora Cairns, 1983
- Genus Stenohelia Kent, 1870
- Genus Stephanohelia Cairns, 1991
- Genus Stylantheca Fisher, 1931
- Genus Stylaster Gray, 1831
- Genus Systemapora Cairns, 1991
- Genus Acanthopora Moseley, 1876 accepted as Stellapora Cairns, 1983 (junior homonym)
- Subfamily Adeloporinae Cairns, 1982 accepted as Stylasteridae Gray, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Allopora Ehrenberg, 1834 accepted as Stylaster Gray, 1831 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Astylus Moseley, 1879 accepted as Astya Stechow, 1921 (preoccupied by Astylus Laporte, 1836 [Coleoptera])
- Genus Cryptohelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 accepted as Crypthelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 (synonymy)
- Genus Cyclopora Verrill, 1866 accepted as Stylaster Gray, 1831
- Subfamily Distichoporinae Stechow, 1921 accepted as Stylasteridae Gray, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Endhelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Crypthelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 (unaccepted > junior objective synonym)
- Genus Endohelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Endhelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Crypthelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Subfamily Errininae Stechow, 1921 accepted as Stylasteridae Gray, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Subfamily Errininae Hickson, 1912 accepted as Stylasteridae Gray, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Inferiolabiata Broch, 1951 accepted as Paraerrina Broch, 1942
- Genus Labiopora Moseley, 1879 accepted as Errina Gray, 1835 (synonymy)
- Genus Lepidotheca Cairns, 1983 accepted as Paraerrina Broch, 1942
- Genus Polypora Moseley, 1876 accepted as Sporadopora Moseley, 1879 (junior homonym)
- Genus Protoerrina Broch, 1935 accepted as Errinopora Fisher, 1931 (synonymy)
- Genus Spinipora Moseley, 1879 accepted as Stellapora Cairns, 1983 (junior homonym)
- Genus Steganopora Hickson & England, 1905 accepted as Pliobothrus Pourtalès, 1868 (synonymy)
- Subfamily Stylasterinae Gray, 1847 accepted as Stylasteridae Gray, 1847 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Stylasteridae incertae sedis (temporary name)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Gray J.E. (1847). An outline of an arrangement of stony corals. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 19: 120-128., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2266284
page(s): 127 [details]
page(s): 127 [details]
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Nomenclature
original description
Gray J.E. (1847). An outline of an arrangement of stony corals. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 19: 120-128., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2266284
page(s): 127 [details]
original description (of Adeloporinae Cairns, 1982) Cairns, S.D. (1982). A new subfamily of operculate stylasterine (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa) from the subantarctic. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 16:71-81.
page(s): 71 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Distichoporinae Stechow, 1921) Stechow, E. (1921d). Neue Genera und Species von Hydrozoen und anderen Evertebraten. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 87: 248-265., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45494398 [details]
original description (of Errininae Stechow, 1921) Stechow, E. (1921d). Neue Genera und Species von Hydrozoen und anderen Evertebraten. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 87: 248-265., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45494398 [details]
original description (of Errininae Hickson, 1912) Hickson SJ. (1912). On the hydrocoralline genus, Errina. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1912: 876-896, pls. 94-96. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D. (1992). A generic revision of the Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 3. Keys to the genera. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 49(1-2): 538-545. [1991]. published 27 Jan 1992. [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 127 [details]
original description (of Adeloporinae Cairns, 1982) Cairns, S.D. (1982). A new subfamily of operculate stylasterine (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa) from the subantarctic. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 16:71-81.
page(s): 71 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Distichoporinae Stechow, 1921) Stechow, E. (1921d). Neue Genera und Species von Hydrozoen und anderen Evertebraten. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 87: 248-265., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45494398 [details]
original description (of Errininae Stechow, 1921) Stechow, E. (1921d). Neue Genera und Species von Hydrozoen und anderen Evertebraten. <em>Archiv für Naturgeschichte.</em> 87: 248-265., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45494398 [details]
original description (of Errininae Hickson, 1912) Hickson SJ. (1912). On the hydrocoralline genus, Errina. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1912: 876-896, pls. 94-96. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D. (1992). A generic revision of the Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 3. Keys to the genera. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 49(1-2): 538-545. [1991]. published 27 Jan 1992. [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Cairns, S.D. (1984). A generic revision of the Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 2: Phylogenetic analysis. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 35(1): 38-53. [details] Available for editors [request]
taxonomy source Cairns, S.D. (1987). Evolutionary trends in the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). <em>In: J. Bouillon, F. Boero, F. Cicogna & P.F.S. Cornelius, eds., Modern trends in the Systematics, Ecology and Evolution of Hydroids and Hydromedusae.</em> :257-274. [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Cairns, S.D. (1983). A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 33(2): 427-508. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]taxonomy source Cairns, S.D. (1987). Evolutionary trends in the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa). <em>In: J. Bouillon, F. Boero, F. Cicogna & P.F.S. Cornelius, eds., Modern trends in the Systematics, Ecology and Evolution of Hydroids and Hydromedusae.</em> :257-274. [details] Available for editors
[request]redescription Cairns, S.D. (1983). A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. <em>Bulletin of Marine Science.</em> 33(2): 427-508. [details] Available for editors
[request]Ecology
ecology source
Cairns, S.D. (1992). In: J. Bouillon, F. Boero, F. Cicogna, J.M. Gili & R.G. Hughes, (eds.). Worldwide distribution of the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). <em>Aspects of Hydrozoan Biology Scientia Marina.</em> 56(2-3): 125-130. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]Other
context source (MSBIAS)
MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]
additional source Bouillon, J.; Gravili, C.; Pagès, F.; Gili, J.-M.; Boero, F. (2006). An introduction to Hydrozoa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 194. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-580-1. 591 + 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D. (2015). Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Anthoathecata) of the New Caledonian Region. <em>Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 28. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 207. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum: Paris.</em> 361 + 1 cd-rom pp., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/27379
page(s): 12-19; note: Key to genera; comments on functional morphology and polychaete commensalism [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Boschma H. (1956). Milleporina and Stylasterina. In: Moore RC (ed) Treatise on invertebrate paleontology F. Coelenterata. <em>Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press.</em> F90–F106. [details]
subsequent type designation Cairns, S.D. (1991). Catalog of the type specimens of stony corals (Milleporidae, Stylasteridae, Scleractinia) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 514:1- 59. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bouillon, J.; Gravili, C.; Pagès, F.; Gili, J.-M.; Boero, F. (2006). An introduction to Hydrozoa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 194. Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-580-1. 591 + 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D. (2015). Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Anthoathecata) of the New Caledonian Region. <em>Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 28. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 207. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum: Paris.</em> 361 + 1 cd-rom pp., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/27379
page(s): 12-19; note: Key to genera; comments on functional morphology and polychaete commensalism [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Boschma H. (1956). Milleporina and Stylasterina. In: Moore RC (ed) Treatise on invertebrate paleontology F. Coelenterata. <em>Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press.</em> F90–F106. [details]
subsequent type designation Cairns, S.D. (1991). Catalog of the type specimens of stony corals (Milleporidae, Stylasteridae, Scleractinia) in the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 514:1- 59. [details] Available for editors
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Diagnosis Hydroid colony erect, branched, usually flabellate, more rarely encrusting, with a thick calcareous exoskeleton (coenosteum); polyps polymorphic and retractile; gastrozooids with one whorl of filiform tentacles, exceptionally without tentacles; bottom of gastric cavity with or without an upright pointed or rounded toothed spine (gastrostyle); dactylozooids filiform, without tentacles, with or without dactylostyle; gastrozooids and dactylozooids retractable into special skeletal depressions: gastropores and dactylopores; gastro- and dactylozooids either irregularly distributed over colony, or limited to certain regions of colony, or often arranged in circles (cyclosystems) where one gastrozooid is surrounded by several dactylozooids; gonophores as reduced fixed sporosacs and developed inside vesicles (ampullae) covered by or buried in coenosteum. [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | sylasterine hydrocoralslace corals | [details] |
| German | StylasteridenHydrokorallenFiligrankorallen | [details] |
| Italian | stilasteridi | [details] |
| Japanese | サンゴモドキ科 | [details] |
| Lithuanian | hidrokoralai | [details] |
| Modern Greek (1453-) | Στυλαστερίδες | [details] |
| Norwegian | hydrokorallfamilie | [details] |
| Russian | коралллы | [details] |
| Turkish | bağcık mercanlarıgiller | [details] |
| Ukrainian | Стиластериди | [details] |
