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Stephanocyathus (Odontocyathus) Moseley, 1881 
AphiaID: 508447

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family) > Stephanocyathus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
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Rank Subgenus
Typetaxon Platytrochus coronatus Pourtalès, 1867 (type by monotypy)
Parent Stephanocyathus Seguenza, 1864
Synonymised
taxa
  Odontocyathus Moseley, 1881
Sources  basis of record: 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]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details]

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 Species Stephanocyathus (Odontocyathus) campaniformis (Marenzeller, 1904)
Species Stephanocyathus (Odontocyathus) coronatus (Pourtalès, 1867)
Species Stephanocyathus (Odontocyathus) nobilis (Moseley in Thompson, 1873)
Species Stephanocyathus (Odontocyathus) weberianus (Alcock, 1902)

Species Stephanocyathus (Odontocyathus) ixine Squires, 1958 † accepted as Stephanocyathus (Odontocyathus) weberianus (Alcock, 1902)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent only
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 543-2200 m [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:508447
Taxonomic
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2010-08-18 14:38:35Z  created  Cairns, Stephen
2010-09-13 23:22:01Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Stephanocyathus (Odontocyathus) Moseley, 1881. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=508447 on 2013-06-18
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