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Premocyathus Yabe & Eguchi, 1942 
AphiaID: 135100

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 Premocyathus compressus Yabe & Eguchi, 1942 (type by original designation)
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]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Premocyathus cornuformis (Pourtalès, 1868)
Species Premocyathus dentiformis (Alcock, 1902)

Species Premocyathus burchae Cairns, 1984 accepted as Trochocyathus (Trochocyathus) burchae (Cairns, 1984)
Species Premocyathus compressus Yabe & Eguchi, 1942 accepted as Premocyathus dentiformis (Alcock, 1902)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent + fossil
Link To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 22-2360 m [details]

Fossil range: Pleistocene to Recent [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135100
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hoeksema, Bert
2006-09-27 07:06:07Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2010-09-13 23:22:01Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Premocyathus Yabe & Eguchi, 1942. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135100 on 2013-05-24
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