WoRMS taxon details
Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) vanderhorsti Cairns, 2001
AphiaID: 286953
AphiaID: 286953
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Dendrophylliidae (Family) > Balanophyllia (Genus) > Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) (Subgenus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) Wood, 1844 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) ponderosa van der Horst, 1926 (synonym) | ||||||||||
| 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 (from synonym): 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] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Cairns, S.D., 1994. Scleractinia of the Temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 557:150 pp., 42 plates, 3 figs. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Indo-West Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Link | To Encyclopedia of Life | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 51-59 m [details] Homonymy: new name for Balanophyllia ponderosa van der Horst, 1926, not B. ponderosa vaughan, 1900 [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:286953 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) vanderhorsti Cairns, 2001. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286953 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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