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Diaseris Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 
AphiaID: 206817

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Fungiidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
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Accepted name  Cycloseris Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Fungia distorta Michelin, 1842 (type by monotypy)
Parent Fungiidae Dana, 1846
Sources  original description: Milne-Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1849. Mémoire sur les polypiers appartenant a la famille des Oculinides, au groupe intermediate des Pseudoastréides et a la famille des Fongides. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences 29: 67-73. [details]

basis of record: Hoeksema, B.W., 1989. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden 254: 1-295., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149013 [details]

additional source: Wells, J.W. 1966. Evolutionary development in the scleractinian family Fungiidae. In: Rees WJ (ed.) The Cnidaria and their evolution. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London 16: 223–246, pl. 1. Academic Press, London. [details]

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Species Diaseris crispus Pourtalès, 1871 accepted as Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) crispus (Pourtalès, 1871)
Species Diaseris distorta (Michelin, 1842) accepted as Cycloseris distorta (Michelin, 1842)
Species Diaseris fragilis Alcock, 1893 accepted as Cycloseris fragilis (Alcock, 1893)
Species Diaseris freycineti Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 accepted as Cycloseris sinensis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
Species Diaseris mortoni Tenison-Woods, 1880 accepted as Cycloseris cyclolites (Lamarck, 1815)
Species Diaseris pulchella Verrill, 1866 accepted as Cycloseris distorta (Michelin, 1842)
Species Diaseris pusillus Pourtalès, 1868 accepted as Fungiacyathus (Fungiacyathus) pusillus (De Pourtalès, 1868)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Link To ITIS
Notes  Description: Corals are solitary, free-living discs, flat, composed of several fan-shaped segments, with a mouth situated at the point of divergence of the segments. Septa are thick with blunt teeth resembling rows of granules. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details]

Remark: Fungia distorta Michelin, 1842 [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206817
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Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-03 14:17:27Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-07-31 06:57:06Z  changed  Camba Reu, Cibran
2013-01-21 14:52:37Z  changed  Hoeksema, Bert
2013-01-27 11:43:09Z  changed  Hoeksema, Bert
  
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  Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Diaseris Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206817 on 2013-05-26
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