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“Lithotelestidae, new family

Helioporaceans with stoloniferous growth form, with both stolons and calices forming a rigid skeleton of crystalline aragonite; cylindrical calices bear secondary lateral calices; polyps fully retractile, containing octocorallian sclerites in the form of capstans and crosses composed of calcite.”

(Bayer & Muzik, 1977)

Lithotelestidae

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Lithotelestidae is a family of coral in the order Helioporacea. It was erected in 1977 by Frederick Bayer and Katherine Muzik. It is characterized by a crystalline aragonite skeleton formed by stolons and calices, cylindrical calices with secondary lateral calices, and fully retractable polyps with an exoskeleton formed of calcite capstans and crosses.[1]

Genera

References

  1. ^ a b Bayer, F. M. & Muzik, K. M. (1977). An Atlantic helioporan coral (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 90(4), 975–984.
  2. ^ Lonsdale, W. (1850). Notes on the corals. In Dixon, F. (Ed.), The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex (pp. 237–324). London: Brown, Green, and Longmans.
  3. ^ Miyazaki, Y. & Reimer, J. (2015). A new genus and species of octocoral with aragonite calcium-carbonate skeleton (Octocorallia, Helioporacea) from Okinawa, Japan. ZooKeys, 511, 1–23.
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Lithotelestidae: Brief Summary

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Lithotelestidae is a family of coral in the order Helioporacea. It was erected in 1977 by Frederick Bayer and Katherine Muzik. It is characterized by a crystalline aragonite skeleton formed by stolons and calices, cylindrical calices with secondary lateral calices, and fully retractable polyps with an exoskeleton formed of calcite capstans and crosses.

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Lithotelestidae ( Italian )

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Lithotelestidae Bayer & Muzik, 1977 è una famiglia di octocoralli dell'ordine Helioporacea.[1]

Descrizione

Sono coralli ermatipici che costruiscono robuste strutture scheletriche di aragonite cristallina.[2][3]

I polipi possono retrarsi interamente all'interno di un esoscheletro a forma di calice (corallite). Le colonie hanno una crescita stolonifera, con stoloni e coralliti cementati dall'aragonite.

Tassonomia

La famiglia comprende i seguenti generi e specie:[1][4][5]

Distribuzione e habitat

Delle tre specie viventi del genere Epiphaxum, due vivono nei Caraibi e una nell'oceano Indiano occidentale (Madagascar).[6][7]

L'areale di Nanipora kamurai è ristretto alle acque dell'isola di Zamami (prefettura di Okinawa, Giappone). [5]

Il loro habitat sono le barriere coralline tropicali di acque basse.

Note

  1. ^ a b (EN) Lithotelestidae, in WoRMS (World Register of Marine Species). URL consultato il 13/5/2020.
  2. ^ (EN) Daly et al., The phylum Cnidaria: A review of phylogenetic patterns and diversity 300 years after Linnaeus (PDF), in Zootaxa, vol. 1668, 2007, pp. 127–182.
  3. ^ (EN) Bayer F.M.; K.M. Muzik, An Atlantic helioporan coral (Coelenterata: Octocorallia), in Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, vol. 90, 1977, pp. 975-984.
  4. ^ (EN) Lonsdale W., Notes on the corals, in Dixon F. (Ed.), The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex, Brown, Green, and Longmans, London, 1850, pp. 237–324.
  5. ^ a b (EN) Miyazaki Y. & Reimer J., A new genus and species of octocoral with aragonite calcium-carbonate skeleton (Octocorallia, Helioporacea) from Okinawa, Japan, in ZooKeys, vol. 511, 2015, pp. 1–23.
  6. ^ (EN) Bayer F.M., The Heliopracean octocoral Epiphaxum, recent and fossil. A monographic iconography, in Studies in Tropical Occeanography Miami, vol. 15, 1992, pp. 1–76.
  7. ^ (EN) Lozeuet P., Molodtsova T., Filling a gap: The first occurrence of Epiphaxum (Cnidaria: Helioporacea: Lithotelestidae) in the Eocene, Oligocene and Miocene, in Paleontology, vol. 51, 2008, pp. 241–250, DOI:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2007.00744.x.

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Lithotelestidae ( Dutch; Flemish )

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Lithotelestidae is een familie van neteldieren uit de klasse van de Anthozoa (Bloemdieren).

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Lithotelestidae is een familie van neteldieren uit de klasse van de Anthozoa (Bloemdieren).

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