WoRMS taxon details
original description
Marenzeller, E. von. (1907). Über den Septennachwuchs der Eupsamminen E.H. Expeditionen S.M. Schiff "Pola" in das Rote Meer. Nördliche und Südliche Hälfte 1895/96 – 1897/98. Zoologische Ergebnisse XXIV. Berichte der Kommission für Ozeanographische Forschungen. <em>Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften- Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlige Klasse, Wien.</em> 80: 1–12. [details]
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [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
Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137. page(s): 136 [details]
additional source
Baron-Szabo, R.C. & S.D. Cairns. (2019). Chapter 14: Part F, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 14:Systematic Descriptions of the Scleractinia Family Dendrophylliidae. <em>Treatise Online, Part F, Revised.</em> 119: 1-33. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Stetson, T. R.; Squires, D. F.; Pratt, R. M. (1962). Coral banks occurring in deep water on the Blake Plateau. American Museum Novitates, (2114): 1-39 page(s): 22, 34 [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]
additional source
Reed, J. K.; Weaver, D. C.; Pomponi, S. A. (2006). Habitat and fauna of deep-water Lophelia pertusa coral reefs off the southeastern U.S.: Blake Plateau, Straits of Florida, and Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science, 78, 2, 343-375 page(s): 346, 371 [details]
redescription
Cairns, S.D. (2001). A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 615: 1-75., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.615 [details] Available for editors [request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Comparison Like Thecopsammia but not septa not arranged in a Pourtalès plan. [details]
Diagnosis Corallum solitary, trochoid, attached; epitheca well developed, covering fine hispid ridges; septa normally arranged; columella discrete and spongy; azooxanthellate. [details]
Remark This genus and family were monographed by Cairns (2001), which included a phylogenetic analysis based on morphology. Three species, only one of them fossil. [details]Unverified
Biology azooxanthellate [details]
Depth range 210-1115 m [details]
Fossil range Late Cretaceous to Recent [details]
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