WoRMS taxon details
Letepsammia Yabe & Eguchi, 1932
AphiaID: 267550
AphiaID: 267550
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Micrabaciidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Stephanophyllia formosissima Moseley, 1876 (type by original designation) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Micrabaciidae Vaughan, 1905 | ||||||||||
| 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., 1989. A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae. Smith. Cont. Zool. 486: 136 pp., 42 pls., 3 figs. [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Letepsammia fissilis Cairns, 1995 Species Letepsammia formosissima (Moseley, 1876) Species Letepsammia franki Owens, 1994 Species Letepsammia superstes (Ortmann, 1888) Species Letepsammia japonica (Yabe & Eguchi, 1934) accepted as Letepsammia superstes (Ortmann, 1888) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 50-710 m [details] Fossil range: Pliocene to Recent [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267550 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Letepsammia Yabe & Eguchi, 1932. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267550 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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