WoRMS taxon details
Rhizopsammia Verrill, 1869
AphiaID: 206565
AphiaID: 206565
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Dendrophylliidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Rhizopsammia pulchra Verrill, 1870 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Dendrophylliidae Gray, 1847 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (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] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 2001. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smith. Cont. Zool. 615: 75 pp., 14 pls., 3 figs. [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 [show all] | Species Rhizopsammia annae (van der Horst, 1933) Species Rhizopsammia bermudensis Wells, 1972 Species Rhizopsammia compacta Sheppard & Sheppard, 1991 Species Rhizopsammia goesi (Lindström, 1877) Species Rhizopsammia minuta van der Horst, 1922 Species Rhizopsammia nuda van der Horst, 1926 Species Rhizopsammia pulchra Verrill, 1870 Species Rhizopsammia verrilli van der Horst, 1922 Species Rhizopsammia wellingtoni Wells, 1982 Species Rhizopsammia wettsteini Scheer & Pillai, 1983 Species Rhizopsammia chamissoi Wells, 1954 accepted as Rhizopsammia verrilli van der Horst, 1922 Species Rhizopsammia manuelensis Chevalier, 1966 accepted as Cladopsammia manuelensis (Chevalier, 1966) | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 0-278 m [details] Fossil range: Pliocene to Recent [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206565 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Rhizopsammia Verrill, 1869. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206565 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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