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Oxysmilia circularis Cairns, 1998 
AphiaID: 290562

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family) > Oxysmilia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (transferred to this genus by Kitahara and Cairns (2005))
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Monohedotrochus circularis (Cairns, 1998)
Rank Species
Parent Oxysmilia Duchassaing, 1870
Sources  original description: Cairns, S.D., 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Rec. of West. Austr. Mus. 18(4): 361-417, 9 pls.  [details]

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

additional source: Cairns, S.D., 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-Water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Mem. Mus. natl. Hist. nat., Paris, 180: 31-167. [details]

Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Indo-West Pacific [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Note  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290562
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2010-07-29 18:34:43Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
2010-07-29 20:04:23Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Oxysmilia circularis Cairns, 1998. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290562 on 2013-05-23
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