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Lophelia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849 
AphiaID: 135095

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Madrepora prolifera Pallas, 1766 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846
Synonymised
taxa		  Lophohelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 (misspelling)
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]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758)

Species Lophelia californica Durham, 1947 accepted as Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Lophelia prolifera (Pallas, 1766) accepted as Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 39-2775 m [details]

Fossil range: Pliocene to Recent [details]
Images 
Lophelia reefs are common at several locations in the Trondheimsfjord, as shallow as 39m.
Lophelia reefs are common at several locations in the Trondheimsfjord, as shallow as 39m.
added on 2006-09-26 - author: HT Rapp
qualitystatus: checked by Cairns, Stephen on 2012-11-20 19:37:58

A field of living and dead Lophelia and Madrepora
A field of living and dead Lophelia and Madrepora
added on 2008-09-22
qualitystatus: checked by Cairns, Stephen on 2012-11-20 19:38:26
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135095
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hoeksema, Bert
2006-09-22 06:50:38Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-09-13 23:22:01Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Lophelia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135095 on 2013-05-25
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