WoRMS taxon details
Tubastraea Lesson, 1829
AphiaID: 267930
AphiaID: 267930
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Dendrophylliidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1829 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Dendrophylliidae Gray, 1847 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Astropsammia Verrill, 1869 Coenopsammia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Pachypsammia Verrill, 1866 Placopsammia Duncan, 1876 Tubastaea (misspelling) Tubastrea Lesson, 1829 (misspelling) | |||||||||||||
| 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., 2001. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smith. Cont. Zool. 615: 75 pp., 14 pls., 3 figs. [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] from synonym: Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Cairns, S.D., 2009. On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge http://www.lophelia.org/online-appendices [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1829 Species Tubastraea diaphana (Dana, 1846) Species Tubastraea faulkneri Wells, 1982 Species Tubastraea floreana Wells, 1982 Species Tubastraea micranthus (Ehrenberg, 1834) Species Tubastraea tagusensis Wells, 1982 Species Tubastraea aurea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) accepted as Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1829 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth zone: 0-110 m [details] Fossil range: Eocene to Recent [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267930 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Tubastraea Lesson, 1829. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267930 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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