WoRMS taxon details
Pourtalosmilia Duncan, 1884
AphiaID: 135099
AphiaID: 135099
| 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 | Blastosmilia pourtalesi Duncan, 1878 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Blastosmilia Duncan, 1878 | |||||||||||||
| 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 Pourtalosmilia anthophyllites (Ellis & Solander, 1786) Species Pourtalosmilia conferta Cairns, 1978 Species Pourtalosmilia dumosa Alcock, 1902 accepted as Goniocorella dumosa (Alcock, 1902) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 25-300 m [details] Homonymy: Replacement name for Blastosmilia Duncan, 1878, a junior homonym of Blastosmilia Etallon, 1859 [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135099 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Pourtalosmilia Duncan, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135099 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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