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Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report

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CAAB Code:	11 306000     Taxa superceded by 11 305000 show as JSON
Scientific Name and Authority:	Diploastreidae
Rank:	Family

CAAB category: 11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies Family: 11 306 Diploastreidae (stony corals) - show full list Common Name: stony corals Organism Type: a stony coral Synonyms: Faviidae Taxon lists: Current Australian list: Commercial species list: Standard Fish Names List: Habitat: Marine unspecified Parent Codes: 11 290000     Scleractinia Child Codes: 11 306906     Diploastrea spp.

Taxon Notes:

Members of this family were previously included in the Faviidae, which is now regarded as restricted to the Atlantic. Most other Indo-Pacific members of the old Faviidae were moved to the Merulinidae. This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to family level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.

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Record source:	Veron, J. E. H., 2000 Veron, J. E. H., Corals of the World. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, Qld. 3 Vols.
Scientific Name verified against:	Huang, D., Benzoni, F., Fukami, H., Knowlton, N., Smith, N.D., Budd, A.F., 2014. Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia)., Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, Vol. 171: 277-355.