WoRMS taxon details
Heterocyathus hemisphaericus Gray, 1849
AphiaID: 288863
AphiaID: 288863
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family) > Heterocyathus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Psammoseris Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Heterocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Heterocyathus hemisphericus Gray, 1849 (misspelled) Psammoseris hemisphericus (Gray, 1850) (synonym) Spongiocyathus typicus Folkeson, 1919 | |||||||||||||
| 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., 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Rec. of West. Austr. Mus. 18(4): 361-417, 9 pls. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2004. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia of Australia. Rec. Australian Mus., 56(3): 259-329, 12 pls. [details] source of synonymy (from synonym): UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details] [view taxon] additional source (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] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Indian Ocean [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:288863 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Heterocyathus hemisphaericus Gray, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288863 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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