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

Vacatina Okubo, 2016

Rank: Suborder
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Astrangiidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
Astrocoeniidae Koby, 1890
Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846
Cladocoridae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
Deltocyathidae Kitahara, Cairns, Stolarski & Miller, 2012
Fungiidae Dana, 1846
Madreporidae Ehrenberg, 1834
Meandrinidae Gray, 1847
Micrabaciidae Vaughan, 1905
Oculinidae Gray, 1847
Pocilloporidae Gray, 1840
Stephanocyathidae Vaga, Cairns & Kitahara, 2024

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	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	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	Stolarski J, Coronado I, Murphy JG, Kitahara MV, Janiszewska K, Mazur M, Gothmann AM, Bouvier A-S, Marin-Carbonne J, Taylor ML, Quattrini AM, McFadden CS, Higgins JA, Robinson LF, Meibom A. (2020). A modern scleractinian coral with a two-component calcite–aragonite skeleton. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 202013316.
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	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.