Microzoanthidae Fujii & Reimer, 2011, 2010

Low, Martyn E. Y., Sinniger, Frederic & Reimer, James Davis, 2016, The order Zoantharia Rafinesque, 1815 (Cnidaria, Anthozoa: Hexacorallia): supraspecific classification and nomenclature, ZooKeys 641, pp. 1-80 : 11

Microzoanthidae Fujii & Reimer, 2011

Microzoanthidae Fujii & Reimer, 2011: 420, 421.

Type genus.

Microzoanthus Fujii and Reimer, 2011.

Diagnosis.

As discussed in Fujii and Reimer (2011: 421), this family is characterised by "[c]olonies attached to bottom side (downward facing side) of dead coral rubble, asperous stones, inside narrow cracks, or occasionally on dead coral rubble on muddy seafloor. Azooxanthellate, macrocnemic. Polyps connected by narrow stolon or solitary. Sand particles encrusted in column. Irregularly sized sand particles encrusted into ectoderm. Tentacles two to three times as long as expanded oral disc diameter. Edge of oral disc shaped in regular, repeating zig-zagged pattern".

Remarks.

This is a monotypic family and comprises only the genus Microzoanthus Fujii & Reimer, 2011, with two species.