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Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) stimpsonii (Verrill, 1865) 
AphiaID: 286947

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Dendrophylliidae (Family) > Balanophyllia (Genus) > Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) (Subgenus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
Synonymised
taxa
  Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) sumbayaensis Cairns, 2001
Eupsammia stimpsoniana Verrill, 1866 (misspelling)
Eupsammia stimpsonii Verrill, 1865
Rhodopsammia affinis Semper, 1872
Rhodopsammia incerta Semper, 1872
Rhodopsammia socialis Semper, 1972
Sources  basis of record: S.D.Cairns, B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land, update Oct. 2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: 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]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2004. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia of Australia. Rec. Australian Mus., 56(3): 259-329, 12 pls. [details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., and N.B. Keller, 1993. New taxa and distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 103(5): 213-292, 13 pls.  [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., and Zibrowius, H., 1997. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. Mem. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. 172: 27-243, including 29 pls. (=MUSORSTOM Rep. 16).  [details]

Environment marine, terrestrial
Fossil range recent only
Distribution Central Indo-Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Indo-West Pacific [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 18-95 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:286947
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-27 12:16:13Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
2010-09-27 23:07:47Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Balanophyllia (Eupsammia) stimpsonii (Verrill, 1865). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286947 on 2013-05-25
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