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Coenosmilia Pourtalès, 1874 
AphiaID: 135089

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family)
Status accepted
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Coenosmilia arbuscula Pourtalès, 1874 (type by monotypy)
Parent Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846
Sources  basis of record: Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema, and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A. F. Budd, B. Lathuiliere, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski, and K. G. Johnson (2010). Corallosphere, available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 2000. A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Stud. Nat. Hist. Carib. Reg. 75: 321 pp., 215 figs.  [details]

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 Species Coenosmilia arbuscula Pourtalès, 1874
Species Coenosmilia inordinata Cairns, 1984

Species Coenosmilia fecunda (Pourtalès, 1871) accepted as Anomocora fecunda (Pourtalès, 1871)
Species Coenosmilia repens Chevalier, 1966 accepted as Pourtalosmilia anthophyllites (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 74-622 m [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135089
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Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hoeksema, Bert
2006-09-08 06:50:23Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-09-14 23:09:58Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Coenosmilia Pourtalès, 1874. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135089 on 2013-05-25
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