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Stylasteridae
Sign in to saveStylasteridae, also known as lace corals, is a family of colonial hydrozoans with a calcified skeleton. They first appeared 65 million years ago in deep waters. About 10% of the species have adapted to live in water less than deep. The rest are found in deeper water, most commonly between , with the deepest known species observed at a depth of .
Species
lace corals
FAMILY
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumCnidaria
- ClassHydrozoa
- OrderAnthoathecata
- FamilyStylasteridae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 229
- With media
- 3
- Family
- Stylasteridae
- Collections
- NCSM, SIO, UCMP, CAS, NMV, USNM
- Recorded in
- United States, Antarctica, Costa Rica, Indonesia, Chile, Mexico, Japan
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Stylasteridae, also known as lace corals, is a family of colonial hydrozoans with a calcified skeleton. They first appeared 65 million years ago in deep waters. About 10% of the species have adapted to live in water less than deep. The rest are found in deeper water, most commonly between , with the deepest known species observed at a depth of .
In shallow reefs the Stylasteridae can grow up to tall and wide, but some species in deeper waters can reach .
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Stylasteridae” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.