WoRMS taxon details
Tropidocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
AphiaID: 267928
AphiaID: 267928
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Turbinoliidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Flabellum lessonii Michelin, 1842 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Turbinoliidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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., 1997. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Turbinoliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smith. Cont. Zool. 591: 55 pp., including 10 pls. [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., 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 Tropidocyathus labidus Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997 Species Tropidocyathus lessonii (Michelin, 1842) Species Tropidocyathus intermedius Yabe & Eguchi, 1932 (nomen nudum) Species Tropidocyathus bouganvillei Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 accepted as Cyathotrochus pileus (Alcock, 1902) Species Tropidocyathus cooperi Gardiner, 1905 accepted as Trochocyathus (Trochocyathus) cooperi (Gardiner, 1905) Species Tropidocyathus nascornatus Gardiner & Waugh, 1938 accepted as Cyathotrochus nascornatus (Gardiner & Waugh, 1938) Species Tropidocyathus pileus (Alcock, 1902) accepted as Cyathotrochus pileus (Alcock, 1902) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 50-536 m [details] Fossil range: Late Cretaceous to Recent [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267928 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Tropidocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267928 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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