WoRMS taxon details
Cyathelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 AphiaID: 204060
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Oculinidae (Family) > Cyathelia (Genus)
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| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Madrepora axillaris Ellis & Solander, 1786 (type by monotypy)
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| Parent | Oculinidae Gray, 1847 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised names |
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] [show all] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa (1) [show all] | Species Cyathelia axillaris (Ellis & Solander, 1786) | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||||||||
| Links |  To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes | From other sources
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. (2014). Cyathelia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204060 on 2015-03-05 | |||||||||||||||||
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