Merulinidae
Sign in to saveMerulinidae is a family of reef-building stony corals.
Species
サザナミサンゴ科
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassAnthozoa
- OrderScleractinia
- FamilyMerulinidae
Habitatmarine
Observations recorded212,506
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 89
- Family
- Merulinidae
- Collections
- UWBM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- Colombia, Indonesia
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Merulinidae is a family of reef-building stony corals.
==Characteristics== All the genera in this family are colonial, reef-building corals. Skeletal structures are similar to those of Faviidae but are highly fused, without paliform lobes. The valleys are superficial or may be indistinct because of fan-like spreading or contortions in the ridges. Faviidae and Trachyphylliidae are the most closely related families.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Merulinidae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.