WoRMS taxon details
Rhizosmilia Cairns, 1978
AphiaID: 267805
AphiaID: 267805
| 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 | Rhizosmilia gerdae Cairns, 1978 (type by original designation) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Cairns, S.D., 1978. New genus and species of ahermatypic coral (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) from the western Atlantic. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 9l(l): 216-221, 1 pl., 1 text-fig. [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., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 2000. A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Stud. Nat. Hist. Carib. Reg. 75: 321 pp., 215 figs. [details] | |||||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Species Rhizosmilia elata Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997 Species Rhizosmilia gerdae Cairns, 1978 Species Rhizosmilia maculata (Pourtalès, 1874) Species Rhizosmilia multipalifera Cairns, 1998 Species Rhizosmilia robusta Cairns in Cairns & Keller, 1993 Species Rhizosmilia sagamiensis (Eguchi, 1968) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 1-539 m [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267805 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Rhizosmilia Cairns, 1978. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267805 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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