Tube corals

Tube corals
Clavularia sp.
Systematics
Trunk : Cnidarians (Cnidaria) Class : Flower animals (anthozoa) Subclass : Octocorallia Order : Soft corals (Alcyonacea) Subordination : Tube corals
Scientific name
Stolonifera
Thomson & Simpson , 1909

Tube corals (Stolonifera) are subordinate to the soft corals (Alcyonacea). Some authors regard it as an informal group for practical reasons only. Here families with a similar growth habit are grouped together, which do not have to be closely related.

features

The tube corals form webs lying flat on the ground, from which the polyps protrude only a few millimeters high. They are considered primitive forms in the subclass of Alcyonaria.

Systematics

The following families and genera are included in the tube corals.

• Family Acrossotidae Bourne, 1914
  • Genus Acrossota Bourne, 1914
• Family Arulidae McFadden & Ofwegen, 2012
  • Genus Arula McFadden & Ofwegen, 2012
  • Genus Hana Lau, Stokvis, van Ofwegen & Reimer, 2018
• Family Clavulariidae Hickson, 1894
  • Genus Azoria Lopez-Gonzalez & Gili, 2001
  • Genus Bathytelesto Bayer, 1981
  • Genus Carijoa Mueller, 1867
  • Genus Cervera Lopez-Gonzalez, Ocana, Garcia-Gomez & Nunez, 1995
  • Genus Clavularia de Blainville, 1830
  • Genus Cryptophyton Williams, 2000
  • Genus Cyathopodium Verrill, 1868
  • Genus Denhartogia Ocaña & van Ofwegen, 2003
  • Genus Hadaka Yee & Reimer, 2019
  • Genus Incrustatus Van Ofwegen, Häussermann & Försterra, 2006
  • Genus Knopia Alderslade 2007
  • Genus Moolabalia Alderslade, 2001
  • Genus Paratelesto Utinomi, 1958
  • Genus Pseudocladochonus Versluys, 1907
  • Genus Rhodelinda Bayer, 1981
  • Genus Sarcodictyon Forbes, 1847
  • Genus Scleranthelia Studer, 1878
  • Genus Scyphopodium Bayer, 1981
  • Genus Stereosoma Hickson, 1894
  • Genus Stereotelesto Bayer, 1981
  • Genus Telesto Lamouroux, 1812
  • Genus Telestula Madsen, 1944
  • Genus Tesseranthelia Bayer, 1981
• Family Coelogorgiidae Bourne, 1900
  • Genus Coelogorgia Milne-Edwards, 1857
• Family Cornulariidae Dana, 1846
  • Genus Cornularia Lamarck, 1816
• Family Pseudogorgiidae Utinomi & Harada, 1973
  • Genus Pseudogorgia Koelliker, 1870 (with one species)
• Family Tubiporidae Ehrenberg, 1828
  • Genus Tubipora Linnaeus, 1758

Some tube corals are popular pets in the saltwater aquarium .

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Individual evidence

1. Jump up ↑ Yee Wah Lau, Frank Robert Stokvis, Leendert Pieter van Ofwegen, James Davis Reimer: Stolonifera from Shallow Waters in the north-western Pacific: A Description of A New Genus and Two New Species within the Arulidae (Anthozoa, Octocorallia). In: ZooKeys. Volume 790, 2018, pp. 1-19, DOI: 10.3897 / zookeys.786.28875 .
2. ↑ This genus was preoccupied by Azoria Mulsant in 1850 and is therefore invalid Nomenclator Zoologicus
3. ↑ Yee Wah Lau, James Davis Reimer: Zooxanthellate, Sclerite-Free, and Pseudopinnuled Octocoral Hadaka nudidomus gen. Nov. et sp. nov. (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) from Mesophotic Reefs of the Southern Ryukyus Islands. In: Diversity. Volume 11, No. 10, Article 176, 2019, DOI: 10.3390 / d11100176 .
4. ↑ Leen P. Van Ofwegen, Verena Häussermann, Günter Försterra: A new genus of soft coral (Octocorallia: Alcyonacea: Clavulariidae) from Chile. In: Zootaxa. Volume 1219, 2006, pp. 47-57 ( PDF ).

literature

• 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: Zootaxa. Volume 1668, Wellington 2007, ISSN  1175-5326 , pp. 127-182 ( abstract - PDF ).
• K. Fabricius, Philipp Alderslade: Soft Corals and Sea Fans. Australian Institute of Marine Science, 2001, ISBN 0-642-322104 .

Web links

Commons : Tube Corals (Stolonifera)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tube corals in the sea water dictionary (German)