WoRMS taxon details
Deltocyathus Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848
AphiaID: 135092
AphiaID: 135092
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Deltocyathidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Turbinolia italica Michelotti, 1838 (type by monotypy) | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Deltocyathidae Kitahara, Cairns, Stolarski & Miller, 2012 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Levipalifer Vaughan, 1900 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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., 2009. On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge http://www.lophelia.org/online-appendices [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] additional source: Kitahara, M.V., and S.D. Cairns. 2009. A Revision of the Genus Deltocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 (Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae) from New Caledonia, with the description of a new species. Zoosystema 31(2): 233-48. [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] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Deltocyathus agassizi Pourtalès, 1867 Species Deltocyathus andamanicus Alcock, 1898 Species Deltocyathus calcar Pourtalès, 1874 Species Deltocyathus cameratus Cairns, 1999 Species Deltocyathus corrugatus Cairns, 1999 Species Deltocyathus crassiseptum Cairns, 1999 Species Deltocyathus eccentricus Cairns, 1979 Species Deltocyathus halianthus (Lindström, 1877) Species Deltocyathus heteroclitus Wells, 1984 Species Deltocyathus inusitiatus Kitahara & Cairns, 2009 Species Deltocyathus italicus (Michelotti, 1838) Species Deltocyathus magnificus Moseley, 1876 Species Deltocyathus moseleyi Cairns, 1979 Species Deltocyathus murrayi Gardiner & Waugh, 1938 Species Deltocyathus nascornatus (Gardiner & Waugh, 1938) Species Deltocyathus ornatus Gardiner, 1899 Species Deltocyathus parvulus Keller, 1982 Species Deltocyathus philippinensis Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997 Species Deltocyathus pourtalesi Cairns, 1979 Species Deltocyathus rotulus (Alcock, 1898) Species Deltocyathus sarsi (Gardiner & Waugh, 1938) Species Deltocyathus stella Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997 Species Deltocyathus suluensis Alcock, 1902 Species Deltocyathus taiwanicus Hu, 1987 Species Deltocyathus varians Gardiner & Waugh, 1938 Species Deltocyathus vaughani Yabe & Eguchi, 1932 Species Deltocyathus conicus Zibrowius, 1980 accepted as Deltocyathus italicus (Michelotti, 1838) Species Deltocyathus formosus Cairns, 1995 accepted as Deltocyathus suluensis Alcock, 1902 Species Deltocyathus fragilis Alcock, 1902 accepted as Deltocyathus rotulus (Alcock, 1898) Species Deltocyathus lens Alcock, 1902 accepted as Deltocyathoides orientalis (Duncan, 1876) Species Deltocyathus minutus Gardiner & Waugh, 1938 accepted as Deltocyathoides orientalis (Duncan, 1876) Species Deltocyathus orientalis Duncan, 1876 accepted as Deltocyathoides orientalis (Duncan, 1876) Species Deltocyathus rotaeformis Tenison-Woods, 1878 accepted as Dunocyathus parasiticus Tenison Woods, 1878 Species Deltocyathus stellulatus Cairns, 1984 accepted as Bourneotrochus stellulatus (Cairns, 1984) Species Deltocyathus vincentinus Dennant, 1904 accepted as Australocyathus vincentinus (Dennant, 1904) | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 44-5080 m [details] Fossil range: Upper Cretaceous to Recent [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135092 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Deltocyathus Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135092 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||||||||
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