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/Wiki: 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. Taxonomy[edit]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] Genera[edit]The World Register of Marine Species includes the following genera in the family:[1]
<RMF has not moved these genera to this new family here on WWM; being slow to do so to help people as practical husbandry types, to find pertinent literature, which is mainly still identified w/ older/more established taxonomic schemes; and hoping/knowing that people WILL USE search tools by genus, at times species, to find information here. > <<2/20, starting to...>>
Genus Homophyllia: /WA Coral: • solitary saucer shaped polyp sometimes with multiple centres • fleshy mantle • often occurs in temperate zones Genus Echinophyllia Klunzinger 1859: Highly variable in
color, encrusting or laminar colonies showing rounded ridges that
are free of the substrate; folds with large, dissimilar size, obvious corallites occasionally
rising, pointed in different directions.
Genus Micromussa: /WA Coral: • small (<1cm) angular corallites • ceroid • thick fleshy mantle often brightly coloured
Genus Moseleya: /WA Coral: • large (>4cm) angular corallites • ceroid • often large central corallite • common in intertidal and high silt habitats
Genus Oxypora Saville-Kent 1871, Scroll, Chalice Coral: Made
up of thin encrusting or laminar leaf-like colonies whose edges have a small
costal ridge. Costae have teeth like edge. You can see slits in the skeleton
when colonies have flesh w/ drawn, light is shone through. Tentacles open only at
night. Formerly part of the family Pectiniidae.
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