Euphylliidae
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The Euphylliidae are a family of large polyp hard corals established by Alloiteau in 1952 . The species in the family are among the most common large polyp hard corals in saltwater aquariums.
features
Colonies of the family usually have the shape of a hemisphere with expanded polyps , which has a closed surface made up of large, partially inflated tentacles. If the polyps retreat, the large gaps between the individual coralites become visible. The polyps actually stand individually or in small groups on columnar corallites (phaceloid growth), or they are elongated and meandering and separated from each other by deep trenches (flabello-meandroid growth).
All genera of the Euphylliidae live in symbiosis with zooxanthellae and obtain a large part of the required nutrients from them.
Genera
- Catalaphyllia Wells, 1971
- Ctenella Matthai, 1928
- Euphyllia Dana, 1846
- Fimbriaphylla Veron & Pichon, 1980
- Galaxea Oken, 1815
- Gyrosmilia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1851
- Montigyra Matthai, 1928
- Simplastrea Umbgrove, 1939
Within the hard corals, the Euphylliidae belong to the large clade of "complex corals".
literature
- Daniel Knop: Large polyp stony corals - habitat and genera. In: Coral. Marine aquarium specialist magazine, No. 53, Natur und Tier Verlag, Münster, October / November 2008, ISSN 1439-779X .
- H. Fukami, CA Chen, AF Budd, A. Collins, C. Wallace et al .: Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes Suggest that Stony Corals Are Monophyletic but Most Families of Stony Corals Are Not (Order Scleractinia, Class Anthozoa, Phylum Cnidaria) . In: PLoS ONE. 3 (9), 2008, p. E3222. doi: 10.1371 / journal.pone.0003222
