WoRMS taxon details
Alatotrochus Cairns, 1994
AphiaID: 267212
AphiaID: 267212
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Turbinoliidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Platytrochus rubescens Moseley, 1876 (type by original designation) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Turbinoliidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Cairns, S.D., 1994. Scleractinia of the Temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 557:150 pp., 42 plates, 3 figs. [details] basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (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] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1997. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Turbinoliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smith. Cont. Zool. 591: 55 pp., including 10 pls. [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Alatotrochus japonicus Tachikawa, 2011 Species Alatotrochus rubescens (Moseley, 1876) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 106-751 m [details] Fossil range: Pleistocene to Recent [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267212 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Alatotrochus Cairns, 1994. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267212 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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