WoRMS taxon details
original description
Lamarck, J.-B. M. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome second. <em>Paris. Verdière.</em> Vol. 2 pp. 1-568., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details]
original description
(of Heteractis Chalmas, 1895 †) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1851). Monographie des polypiers fossiles des terrains palaeozoïques, précédée d'un tableau général de la classification des polypes. <em>Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Archives.</em> 5: 1–502, 20 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25098869 page(s): 10 [details]
original description
(of Oryzotrochus Wells, 1959) Wells JW. (1959). Notes on Indo-Pacific scleractinian corals Parts I and II. Part I. Oryzotrochus, a new genus of turbinolian coral. Part II. A new species of Turbinaria from the Great Barrier Reef. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 13: 286-290. [details]
basis of record
van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source
Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source
Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]
additional source
Quayle EH. (1932). Fossil corals of the genus Turbinolia from the Eocene of California. <em>Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History.</em> 7(10): 91-110, pl. 6. [details]
additional source
Verrill, A. E. (1868-1870). Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 1, 6, 377-558. page(s): 536 [details]
additional source
Smith FGW. (1954). Gulf of Mexico Madreporaria. <em>Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.).</em> 55, 291-295. page(s): 294 [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]
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Comparison Differs from Sphenotrochus in having externally pitted theca and a conical corallum. [details]
Diagnosis Corallum ceratoid, circular in cross section; GCD up to 3.5 mm; theca imperforate but externally pitted in an alternating manner; costae independent, smooth ridges, twice the number of septa near calice; septa hexamerally arranged in 2-4 cycles; pali absent; columella styliform or lamellar. [details]
Remark This genus and family was monographed by Cairns (1997), which included a phylogenetic analysis based on morphology. Forty-six species, only one of which is Recent, listed by Cairns (1997). [details]From other sources
Biology azooxanthellate [details]
Depth range 9-32 m [details]
Fossil range Paleocene to Recent [details]
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