Astrocoeniidae

Astrocoeniidae is a family of stony corals. The family is distributed across the tropical and subtropical oceans worldwide.

Description
Astrocoeniids include both hermatypic and ahermatypic (reef-building) colonial corals, both with and without symbiotic zooxanthellae. The family is made up of both branching and encrusting species which can range in size from less than 5 cm to more than 30 m across.

Species
The World Register of Marine Species includes the following genera and species in the family:


 * Astrocoenia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †
 * Astrocoenia blanfordi Duncan, 1880 †
 * Astrocoenia cellulata Duncan, 1880 †
 * Astrocoenia dachiardii Duncan, 1873 †
 * Astrocoenia decaphylla Duncan, 1863 †
 * Astrocoenia gibbosa Duncan, 1880 †
 * Palauastrea Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941
 * Palauastrea ramosa Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941
 * Stephanocoenia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
 * Stephanocoenia incrustans Duncan, 1873 †
 * Stephanocoenia intersepta (Lamarck, 1816) - synonym, Stephanocoenia michelini
 * Stephanocoenia maxima Duncan, 1880 †
 * Stephanocoenia microtuberculata Duncan, 1880 †
 * Stephanocoenia reussi Duncan, 1868 †
 * Stephanocoenia tenuis Duncan, 1863 †
 * Stylocoenia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 †
 * Stylocoenia maxima Duncan, 1880 †
 * Stylocoenia ranikoti Duncan, 1880 †
 * Stylocoenia taurinensis Michelin, 1842 †
 * Stylocoeniella Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935
 * Stylocoeniella armata (Ehrenberg, 1834)
 * Stylocoeniella cocosensis Veron, 1990
 * Stylocoeniella guentheri (Bassett-Smith, 1890)
 * Stylocoeniella nikei Benzoni & Pichon, 2004