Stylasteridae

Stylaster roseus

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Filifera
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Phylum: Cnidaria Classis: Hydrozoa Subclassis: Hydroidolina Ordo: Anthoathecata Subordo: Filifera

Familia: Stylasteridae
Genera: Adelopora – Allopora – Astya – Axoporella – Calyptopora – Carta – Cheiloporidion – Componospina – Congregopora – Conopora – Crypthelia – Cyclohelia – Distichopora – Errina – Errinopora – Errinopsis – Gyropora – Inferiolabiata – Lepidopora – Lepidotheca – Leptohelia – Paraconopora – Paraerrina – Phalangopora – Pliobothrus – Protoerrina – Pseudocrypthelia – Sporadopora – Stellapora – Stenohelia – Stephanohelia – Stylantheca – Stylaster – Systemapora

Name

Stylasteridae Gray, 1847: 127

Type genus: Stylaster Gray, 1831

References

Primary references

• Gray, J.E. 1847. An outline of the arrangement of stony corals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History Series 1, 19(124): 120–128. DOI: 10.1080/037454809496460 BHL Reference page. 
• Cairns, Stephen D. & Alberto Lindner (in press, 2011) A Revision of the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Filifera) from Alaska and Adjacent Waters. ZooKeys 158: 1–88.
• Chakraborty, O., Raghunathan, C. & Chandra, K. 2018. New record of Hydrozoa Distichopora violacea (Pallas, 1766) (Anthoathecata: Stylasteridae) from Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India. Zootaxa 4508(3): 439–442. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4508.3.8 Reference page. 
• Cairns, S.D.; Zibrowius, H. 2013: Stylasteridae (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Filifera) from South Africa. Zootaxa 3691(1): 1–57. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3691.1.1 Reference page. 
• Lindner, A., Cairns, S.D. & Zibrowius, H. 2014. Leptohelia flexibilis gen. nov. et sp. nov., a remarkable deep-sea stylasterid (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from the southwest Pacific. Zootaxa 3900(4): 581–591. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3900.4.8 Reference page. 
• Moseley, H.N. 1876. Preliminary note on the structure of the Stylasteridae, a group of stony corals which, like the Milleporidae, are hydroids, and not anthozoans. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London 25(172): 93–101. BHL Reference page. 
• Moseley, H.N. 1878. The Croonian Lecture: On the Structure of the Stylasteridae, a Family of the Hydroid Stony Corals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 169: 425–503. JSTOR Reference page. 
• Moseley, H.N. 1881: Report on certain hydroid, alcyonarian, and madreporarian corals procured during the voyage of H. M. S. Challenger, in the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H. M. S. Challenger during the Years 1873–76, Zoology 2(7): 1–248, 32 pls. in three parts, 17 figs. BHL Reference page. 
• Pica, D., Cairns, S.D., Puce, S. & Newman, W.A. 2015. Southern hemisphere deep-water stylasterid corals including a new species, Errina labrosa sp. n. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa, Stylasteridae), with notes on some symbiotic scalpellids (Cirripedia, Thoracica, Scalpellidae). ZooKeys, 472: 1–25. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.472.8547 Reference page. 

Links

• Stylasteridae – Taxon details on Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

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