A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Merulinidae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Dipsastraea danai (Haime & Milne Edwards, 1857) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsastraea favus (Forskål, 1775) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dipsastraea laddi (Wells, 1954) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsastraea laxa (Klunzinger, 1879) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dipsastraea matthaii (Vaughan, 1918) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsastraea pallida (Dana, 1846) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dipsastraea rosaria (Veron, 2000) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Dipsastraea speciosa (Dana, 1846) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Dipsastraea truncata (Veron, 2000) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| hedgehog coralEchinopora hirsutissima Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| hedgehog coralEchinopora mammiformis (Nemenzo, 1959) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Echinopora robusta Veron, 2000 | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Favites colemani (Veron, 2000) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| larger star coralFavites flexuosa (Dana, 1846) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| larger star coralFavites halicora (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Favites monticularis Mondal, Raghunathan & Venkataraman, 2013 | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Favites paraflexuosus Veron, 2000 | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| larger star coralFavites stylifera Yabe & Sugiyama, 1937 | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Favites valenciennesii (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Favites vasta (Klunzinger, 1879) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Goniastrea columella Crossland, 1948 | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| lesser star coralGoniastrea edwardsi Chevalier, 1971 | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| lesser star coralGoniastrea favulus (Dana, 1846) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| lesser star coralGoniastrea minuta Veron, 2000 | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Goniastrea stelligera (Dana, 1846) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extant |
| Goniastrea variabilis (Duncan, 1873) | MerulinidaeCnidaria | Accepted speciesRecorded extinct |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.