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. About 10% of the species have adapted to shallow water.[3] In shallow reefs they can grow up to 25 cm tall × 30 cm wide,[4] but some species in deeper waters can reach 1 meter.[5]

Genera

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

References

  1. ^ a b c d "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. ^ Stokstad, Erik (16 February 2008). "Invasion of the Lace Corals". Science.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ 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.
  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.


Allikas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylasteridae
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