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Thalamophyllia Duchassaing, 1870 
AphiaID: 135104

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 Desmophyllum riisei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 (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: 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]

source of synonymy: Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [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 Thalamophyllia gasti (Döderlein, 1913)
Species Thalamophyllia gombergi Cairns, 1979
Species Thalamophyllia riisei (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864)
Species Thalamophyllia tenuescens (Gardiner, 1899)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 4-1317 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135104
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hoeksema, Bert
2010-08-20 16:08:38Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
2010-09-09 20:29:02Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Thalamophyllia Duchassaing, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135104 on 2013-05-22
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