WoRMS taxon details
Rhizosmilia robusta Cairns in Cairns & Keller, 1993
AphiaID: 290976
AphiaID: 290976
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family) > Rhizosmilia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Rhizosmilia Cairns, 1978 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: 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] 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., 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-Water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Mem. Mus. natl. Hist. nat., Paris, 180: 31-167. [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, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Indo-West Pacific [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 66-360 m [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290976 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Rhizosmilia robusta Cairns in Cairns & Keller, 1993. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290976 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||
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