Stenocyathidae is a family of
corals
Corals are colonial marine invertebrates within the subphylum Anthozoa of the phylum Cnidaria. They typically form compact Colony (biology), colonies of many identical individual polyp (zoology), polyps. Coral species include the important Coral ...
belonging to the order
Scleractinia
Scleractinia, also called stony corals or hard corals, are marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria that build themselves a hard skeleton. The individual animals are known as polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral disc in which a mo ...
.
Genera:
* ''
Pedicellocyathus''
Cairns, 1995
* ''
Stenocyathus''
Pourtalès, 1871
* ''
Truncatoguynia''
Cairns, 1989
References
Scleractinia
Cnidarian families
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