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Australocyathus Cairns & Parker, 1992 
AphiaID: 267248

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Turbinoliidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Deltocyathus vincentinus Dennant, 1904 (type by original designation)
Parent Turbinoliidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
Sources  original description: Cairns, S.D., and S. A. Parker, 1992. Review of the Recent Scleractinia (Stony Corals) of South Australia, Victoria and Tasmania. Rec. S. Australian Mus., Mono. Ser. 3: 82 pp., 18 pls.  [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]

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 Species Australocyathus vincentinus (Dennant, 1904)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent only
Link To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 16-148 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267248
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-14 11:18:07Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-23 14:57:18Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
2010-09-05 14:32:08Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Australocyathus Cairns & Parker, 1992. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267248 on 2013-05-18
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