WoRMS taxon details
Gyrosmilia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1851
AphiaID: 205315
AphiaID: 205315
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Gyrosmilia interrupta (Ehrenberg, 1834) | |||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: Colonies are submassive to encrusting. Valleys are meandroid with compact Euphyllia-like septa and little or no development of columellae (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205315 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Gyrosmilia Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1851. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205315 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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