Lobophylliidae is a family of large polyp stony corals. The family was created in 2009 after a revision of the "robust" families of Faviidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae and Pectiniidae, which had been shown to be polyphyletic. The family Lobophylliidae was formed out of the Indo-Pacific species that had traditionally been included in Mussidae, and some of the species which had previously formed Pectiniidae, the remaining species from Pectiniidae having been merged into Merulinidae.[2] The type genus is Lobophyllia.
The "robust" stony coral families of Faviidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae and Pectiniidae, have traditionally been recognised on morphological grounds but recent molecular analysis has shown that these families are polyphyletic, the similarities between the species having occurred through convergent evolution. Additionally, some traditional genera such as Favia and Scolymia have been found to be polyphyletic, with the Atlantic faviids and scolymids being more closely related to each other than they are to their Indo-Pacific relatives. A revised classification, proposed in 2012, places the Pacific species of Mussidae in a new family, Lobophylliidae and retains the taxon Mussidae for the Atlantic species.[2] In the revision, the genera Echinomorpha, Echinophyllia and Oxypora were transferred to Lobophylliidae from Pectiniidae and the genus Moseleya from elsewhere.[3]
The World Register of Marine Species includes the following genera in the family:[1]
Lobophylliidae is a family of large polyp stony corals. The family was created in 2009 after a revision of the "robust" families of Faviidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae and Pectiniidae, which had been shown to be polyphyletic. The family Lobophylliidae was formed out of the Indo-Pacific species that had traditionally been included in Mussidae, and some of the species which had previously formed Pectiniidae, the remaining species from Pectiniidae having been merged into Merulinidae. The type genus is Lobophyllia.
Lobophylliidae es una familia de corales marinos hermatípicos, que pertenecen al orden Scleractinia, dentro de la clase Anthozoa.
Esta familia se crea en 2009, a tenor de los análisis filogenéticos moleculares presentados en 2008 por Fukami et al.,[1] que demostraron que la tradicional familia Mussidae comprendía un grupo polifilético, con clados claramente separados.
Los géneros de la familia incluyen especies solitarias y coloniales, con reproducción asexual intracalicular mayoritariamente. Los corallum, o esqueletos de las colonias, pueden ser meandroides, faceloides o flabelo-meandroides. Los dientes de los septa son, con frecuencia, triangulares, teniendo pobremente desarrollada la calcificación secundaria de los ejes, con granulaciones redondeadas difusas, microestructura variada, ocasionalmente formando amplios lóbulos paliformes, con columella trabecular, usualmente esponjosa.[2]
El Registro Mundial de Especies Marinas incluye los siguientes géneros en la familia:[3]
Especies aceptadas como sinonimia:
Lobophylliidae es una familia de corales marinos hermatípicos, que pertenecen al orden Scleractinia, dentro de la clase Anthozoa.
Esta familia se crea en 2009, a tenor de los análisis filogenéticos moleculares presentados en 2008 por Fukami et al., que demostraron que la tradicional familia Mussidae comprendía un grupo polifilético, con clados claramente separados.
Los géneros de la familia incluyen especies solitarias y coloniales, con reproducción asexual intracalicular mayoritariamente. Los corallum, o esqueletos de las colonias, pueden ser meandroides, faceloides o flabelo-meandroides. Los dientes de los septa son, con frecuencia, triangulares, teniendo pobremente desarrollada la calcificación secundaria de los ejes, con granulaciones redondeadas difusas, microestructura variada, ocasionalmente formando amplios lóbulos paliformes, con columella trabecular, usualmente esponjosa.
Les Lobophylliidae sont une famille de scléractiniaires (coraux durs).
Selon World Register of Marine Species (18 novembre 2014)[1] :
Les Lobophylliidae sont une famille de scléractiniaires (coraux durs).
Lobophylliidae Dai & Horng, 2009 è una famiglia di coralli dell'ordine Scleractinia[1].
La famiglia comprende i seguenti generi[1]:
La gran parte di essi era in precedenza inquadrata nella famiglia Mussidae.[2]
Lobophylliidae Dai & Horng, 2009 è una famiglia di coralli dell'ordine Scleractinia.
Lobophylliidae is een familie van neteldieren uit de klasse van de Anthozoa (bloemdieren).
Lobophylliidae is een familie van neteldieren uit de klasse van de Anthozoa (bloemdieren).
