WoRMS taxon details
Cyathelia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849
AphiaID: 204060
AphiaID: 204060
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Oculinidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Madrepora axillaris Ellis & Solander, 1786 (type by monotypy) | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Oculinidae Gray, 1847 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cyathohelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [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: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Cyathelia axillaris (Ellis & Solander, 1786) | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 12-366 m [details] Description: Genus of non-reef building scleractinians; Indo-Pacific. Colonial, attached and branching. Has alternate budding of corallites with no axial corallites (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204060 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Cyathelia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204060 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||||||||
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