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Corallimorpharia
| Description | Corallimorpharia is an order of marine cnidarians closely related to stony or reef building corals (Scleractinia). They occur in both temperate and tropical climates, although they are mostly tropical. Temperate forms tend to be very robust, with wide and long columns, whereas tropical forms tend to have very short columns with a wide oral disc and very short tentacles. The tentacles are usually arranged in rows radiating from the mouth. Many species occur together in large groups, although there are recorded instances of individuals. In many respects, they resemble the stony corals, except for the absence of a stony skeleton. Morphological and molecular evidence suggests that they are very closely related to stony corals. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corallimorpharia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Corallimorpharia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Scientific Name | Corallimorpharia | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name(s) | Skivanemoner, Coral-like Anemones, False Anemones, Jewel Anemones, Mushroom Anemones, Coral Anemones, False Corals, ホネナシサンゴ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corallimorpharia |
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Subtaxa
| Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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| Actinodiscidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Corallimorphidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Discosomidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ricordeidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Ricordiidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
| Sideractinidae family | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
References
| GBIF (2014) Global Biodiversity Information Facility: http://data.gbif.org/ - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas |
| Carlgren, O. (1943). East-Asiatic Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar. 20: 1-43, pls. 1-2. - via World Register of Marine Species |
| Daly, M., M.R. Brugler, P. Cartwright, A.G. Collins, M.N. Dawson, D.G. Fautin, S.C. France, C.S. McFadden, D.M. Opresko, E. Rodriquez, S.L. Romano, J.L. Stake. (2007). The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus. Zootaxa. (1668): 127-182. - via World Register of Marine Species |
| Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. - via World Register of Marine Species |
| Cairns, Stephen D., Dale R. Calder, Anita Brinckmann-Voss, Clovis B. Castro, Daphne G. Fautin,..., 2002: Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora, Second Edition, 2002. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 28. xi + 115. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Moore, Raymond C., 1956: null. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Part F: Coelenterata. xx + F1-F498. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) |
| Hansson, Hans G. (2008) "MESS - Marina Evertebrater från Södra Skandinavien (Marine Invertebrates from South Scandinavia) - a teaching aid for students. Marina syd-skandinaviska ""evertebrater"", ett naturhistoriskt urval. Web-upplaga mars 2008. http://www.tmbl.gu.se/staff/HansGHanssonP.html" - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
