Meandrinidae

The Meandrinidae are a family of hard corals (Scleractinia). The family includes five genera with twelve species that live in the Caribbean . Two other species living in the tropical Pacific are traditionally placed in the family, but their assignment is no longer certain today. All recent genera of the Meandrinidae live in symbiosis with zooxanthellae and obtain most of the necessary nutrients from them. In addition, the extinct hard coral genera Aulosmilia , Diploctenium , Flabellosmilia , Glenarea , Nefophyllia , Pachygyra , Phragmosmilia , Phyllosmilia and Strotogyra are counted to the family.

Genera

Caribbean genera with secured assignment:
- Dendrogyra Ehrenberg, 1834
- Dichocoenia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848
- Eusmilia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848
- Goreaugyra Wells, 1973
- Meandrina Lamarck, 1801
Pacific genera with uncertain assignment:
- Gyrosmilia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1851
- Montigyra Matthai, 1928

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↑ 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
Jump up ↑ Marymegan Daly, Mercer R. Brugler, Paulyn Cartwright, Allen G. Collin, Michael N. Dawson, Daphne G. Fautin, Scott C. France, Catherine S. McFadden, Dennis M. Opresko, Estefania Rodriguez, Sandra L. Romano, Joel L. Stake: The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. In: Zootaka. 1668, Wellington 2007, pp. 127-182. ISSN 1175-5326 Abstract - PDF
↑ Meandrininae. In: The Paleobiology Database.

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