WoRMS taxon details
Culicia Dana, 1846
AphiaID: 205610
AphiaID: 205610
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Rhizangiidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Culicia stellata Dana, 1846 (type by subsequent designation) | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Rhizangiidae d'Orbigny, 1851 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Angia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Cylicia | ||||||||||||||||
| 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] from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Culicia australiensis Hoffmeister, 1933 Species Culicia cuticulata Klunzinger, 1879 Species Culicia excavata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Species Culicia fragilis Chevalier, 1971 Species Culicia hoffmeisteri Squires, 1966 Species Culicia quinaria (Tenison Woods, 1878) Species Culicia rachelfitzhardingeae Cairns, 2006 Species Culicia rubeola (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Species Culicia smithii (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Species Culicia stellata Dana, 1846 Species Culicia subaustraliensis Ogawa, Takahashi & Sakai, 1997 Species Culicia tenella Dana, 1846 Species Culicia tenuisepes Ogawa, Takahashi & Sakai, 1997 Species Culicia verreauxi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) (nomen dubium, See Cairns 2004: 319) Species Culicia huttoni Tenison-Woods, 1878 accepted as Culicia rubeola (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) Species Culicia japonica Yabe & Eguchi, 1936 accepted as Culicia stellata Dana, 1846 Species Culicia natalensis (Duncan, 1876) accepted as Culicia tenella natalensis (Duncan, 1876) Species Culicia truncata Dana, 1846 accepted as Culicia stellata Dana, 1846 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | ||||||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 0-378 m [details] Description: Genus of non-reef building scleractinians; Indo-Pacific. Colonial, budding occurs from rootlets but these are seen during early stages only. Corallites are tubular with thin walls, thin, weakly toothed septa and weakly developed columellae. Polyps are extended day and night. They are small with short, straight radiating tentacles (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] Fossil range: Miocene to Recent [details] Remark: Placed in the family Astrangiidae in Faure, G. (1977). Type species: Culicia stellata Dana, 1846 from Singapore (Veron, 1986). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205610 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Culicia Dana, 1846. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205610 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||||||||
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