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Conotrochus Seguenza, 1864 
AphiaID: 267338

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Conotrochus typus Seguenza, 1863 † (type by original designation)
Parent Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846
Synonymised
taxa
  Minolia (Conotrochus) Pilsbry, 1889
Phloeocyathus Alcock, 1902
Pleurocyathus Moseley, 1881
Sources  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., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details]

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 Species Conotrochus asymmetros Cairns, 1999
Species Conotrochus brunneus (Moseley, 1881)
Species Conotrochus funicolumna (Alcock, 1902)
Species Conotrochus typus Seguenza, 1863 †
Environment marine
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 80-1078 m [details]

Fossil range: Miocene to Recent [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267338
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-14 11:18:07Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-20 16:08:38Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
2010-09-14 23:09:58Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Conotrochus Seguenza, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267338 on 2013-06-18
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