Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia

Refertina Okubo, 2016

Rank: Suborder
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Dendrophylliidae Gray, 1847
Euphylliidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
Flabellidae Bourne, 1905
Fungiacyathidae Chevalier & L. Beauvais, 1987
Rhizangiidae d'Orbigny, 1851
Turbinoliidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Literature

original description	Okubo N. (2016). Restructuring the traditional suborders in the order Scleractinia based on embryogenetic morphological characteristics. Zoological Science. 33(1): 116-123.
additional source	Seiblitz, I.G.L., C.F. Vaga, K.C.C. Capel, S.D. Cairns, J. Stolarski, A.M. Quattrini & M.V. Kitahara. (2022). Caryophylliids (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) and mitochondrial gene order: Insights from mitochondrial and nuclear phylogenomics. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 175: 107565.
additional source	Martin-Garin, B.; Montaggioni, L. F. (2023). Into the Intimacy of Corals, Builders of the Sea. Coral Reefs of the World. 7-29.
additional source	Vaga CF, Seiblitz GL, Capel KCC, Kitahara MV. (2022). The mitochondrial genomes of Crispatotrochus rubescens and Crispatotrochus rugosus (Hexacorallia; Scleractinia): new insights on the phylogeny of the family Caryophylliidae. Molecular Biology Reports. 49(12): 12269-12273.
additional source	Capel, K.C.; Zilberberg, C.; Carpes, R.M.; Morrison, C.L.; Vaga, C.F.; Quattrini, A.M.; Quek, R.Z.B.; Huang, D.; Cairns, S.D.; Kitahara, M.V. (2024). How long have we been mistaken? Multi-tools shedding light into the systematics of the widespread deep-water genus Madrepora Linnaeus, 1758 (Scleractinia). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 191: 107994.