Balanophyllia Wood, 1844 
AphiaID: 135108

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Cnidaria > Anthozoa > Hexacorallia > Scleractinia > Dendrophylliidae

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Genus
Parent		Dendrophylliidae Gray, 1847
Sources		basis of record: Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema, and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [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] 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: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 2001. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smith. Cont. Zool. 615: 75 pp., 14 pls., 3 figs.  [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 2000. A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Stud. Nat. Hist. Carib. Reg. 75: 321 pp., 215 figs.  [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details]
Direct child taxa [show all]		Subgenus Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) Wood, 1844    » Species Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) regia Gosse, 1853
Environment		marine
Fossil range		recent + fossil
Links		To GenBank To ITIS
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135108
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 2004-12-21 15:54:05Z   created   Hoeksema, Bert 2006-09-06 06:55:51Z   changed   Martinez, Olga 2010-09-07 13:48:11Z   checked   Cairns, Stephen
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		Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Balanophyllia Wood, 1844. Accessed through: VLIZ Belgian Marine Species Consortium (2010) The Belgian Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/berms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135108 on 2013-05-21
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