WoRMS taxon details
original description
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details]
original description
(of Turbinoliinae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details]
original description
(of Turbinolidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details]
basis of record
Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details]
redescription
Cairns, S.D. (1997). A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Turbinoliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 591: 1-55. [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource
Cairns, S.D. (1997). A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Turbinoliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 591: 1-55. [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource
Cairns, S.D. (1989). A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 486: 1-136. [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource
Cairns, S.D., 1988. Cryptotrochus, new genus and two new species of deep-water corals (Scleractinia: Turbinoliidae). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 101(4): 709-716. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Corallum solitary (generally conical), free (completely invested by polyp), azooxanthellate, sometimes reproducing by transverse division; septa laminar, composed on one fan system of numerous closely spaced simple trabeculae resulting in a smooth axial margin, not dentate); wall septothecal; endothecal dissepiments and synapticulae absent; intercostal grooves deep, sometimes pitted or perforate; septa arranged in various symmetries but usually hexameral; pali and columella present or absent. [details]From other sources
Biology azooxanthellate [details]
Depth range 6-1137 m [details]
Fossil range Late Cretaceous to Recent [details]
Taxonomy Family revised by Cairns (1997), including phylogenetic analysis [details]
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