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Labyrinthocyathus Cairns, 1979 
AphiaID: 267538

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Genus
Typetaxon Labyrinthocyathus langae Cairns, 1979 (type by original designation)
Parent Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846
Sources  original description: Cairns, S.D., 1979. The deep-water Scleractinia of the Caribbean and adjacent waters. Stud. Fauna Curacao, 57 (180): 341 pp. [details]

basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. Stylasteridae, Scleractinia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Labyrinthocyathus delicatus (Marenzeller, 1904)
Species Labyrinthocyathus facetus Cairns, 1979
Species Labyrinthocyathus langae Cairns, 1979
Species Labyrinthocyathus limatulus (Squires, 1964)
Species Labyrinthocyathus quaylei (Durham, 1947)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent + fossil
Link To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 20-1000 m [details]

Fossil range: Eocene to Recent [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267538
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-14 11:18:07Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-17 00:07:56Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
2010-09-09 02:46:30Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Labyrinthocyathus Cairns, 1979. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267538 on 2013-06-19
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