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Stylasteridae

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Stylasteridae
Stylaster nobilis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Hydrozoa
Order: Anthoathecata
Suborder: Filifera
Family: Stylasteridae
Gray, 1847 [1]
Genera

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Synonyms[1]
  • Adeloporinae Cairns, 1982
  • Distichoporinae Stechow, 1921
  • Stylasterinae Gray, 1847

Stylasteridae, also known as lace corals, is a family of colonial hydrozoans with a calcified skeleton.[1][2] They first appeared 65 million years ago in deep waters.[3] About 10% of the species have adapted to live in water less than 50 metres (164 feet) deep.[4] The rest are found in deeper water, most commonly between 200 and 400 metres (656 and 1,312 feet), with the deepest known species observed at a depth of 2,789 metres (9,150 feet).[3]

In shallow reefs the Stylasteridae can grow up to 25 centimetres (9.8 in) tall and 30 centimetres (12 in) wide,[5] but some species in deeper waters can reach 1 metre (3 ft 3 in).[3][clarification needed]

Genera

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According to the World Register of Marine Species, the following genera belong to this family:[1]

References

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Stylasteridae Gray, 1847". marinespecies.org. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
  2. The First Deep-Sea Stylasterid (Hydrozoa, Stylasteridae) of the Red Sea - MDPI
  3. 1 2 3 Cairns, S. D. (2011). "Global Diversity of the Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Athecatae)". PLOS ONE. 6 (7) e21670. Bibcode:2011PLoSO...621670C. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0021670. PMC 3142106. PMID 21799741.
  4. Stokstad, Erik (16 February 2008). "Invasion of the Lace Corals". Science.
  5. Gnecco, Mariana; Nunes, Flávia L. D.; González-Zapata, Fanny L.; Dueñas, Luisa F.; Zilberberg, Carla; Lindner, Alberto; Sánchez, Juan A. (2023). "Remarkable population structure in the tropical Atlantic lace corals Stylaster roseus(Pallas, 1766) and Stylaster blatteus(Boschma, 1961)". Coral Reefs. 42 (1): 181–194. doi:10.1007/s00338-022-02329-5.
  6. Lindner, Cairns & Zibrowius (2014). "Leptohelia flexibilis gen. nov. et sp. nov., a remarkable deep-sea stylasterid (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Stylasteridae) from the southwest Pacific" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3900 (4): 581–591. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3900.4.8. PMID 25543758.