WoRMS taxon details
Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
AphiaID: 503252
AphiaID: 503252
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family) > Caryophyllia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Subgenus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) grayi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) (type by subsequent designation) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Caryophyllia Lamarck, 1801 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Acanthocyathus | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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., R. Baron-Szabo, A. F. Budd, B. Lathuiliere, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski, and K. G. Johnson (2010). Corallosphere, available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details] additional source: Kitahara, M.V., S.D. Cairns, and D.J. Miller. 2010. Monophyletic origin of Caryophyllia (Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae), with descriptions of six new species. Systematics and Biodiversity, 8(1): 91-118, 118 figs. [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) decamera Cairns, 1998 Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) dentata (Moseley, 1881) Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) grayi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) karubarica Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997 Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) quangdongensis Zou, 1984 Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) spinicarens (Moseley, 1881) Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) spinigera (Saville-Kent, 1871) Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) unicristata Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997 Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) zanzibarensis Zou, 1984 Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) dentata Moseley, 1881 accepted as Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) dentata (Moseley, 1881) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 37-750 m [details] Fossil range: Miocene to Recent [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:503252 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=503252 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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