Scleractinia taxon details
Cymosmilia Koby, 1894 †
1438018 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1438018)
accepted
Genus
Cymosmilia conferta Koby, 1894 † (type by monotypy)
- Species Cymosmilia conferta Koby, 1894 †
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Koby F. (1894). Deuxième supplément à la monographie des polypiers jurassiques de la Suisse. <em>Mémoires de la Société paléontologique suisse.</em> 21: 1-20, pls. 1-4. [details]
Description Colonial corallum phaceloid in structure but with short branches irregularly related to each others. Corallites variable in...
Description Colonial corallum phaceloid in structure but with short branches irregularly related to each others. Corallites variable in size and shape, usually conical, laterally compressed, rarely free on their sides but joined to neighbouring corallites at a variable extent. Calices supervficial and elliptical. Exsert rhipidogyrid highly unequal costosepta with cutting arched distal edge. Lamellar deep columella. Thick granulated tectura. Mode of increase variable intra and extracalicinal. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Cymosmilia Koby, 1894 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1438018 on 2025-05-01
original description
Koby F. (1894). Deuxième supplément à la monographie des polypiers jurassiques de la Suisse. <em>Mémoires de la Société paléontologique suisse.</em> 21: 1-20, pls. 1-4. [details]
basis of record 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]
basis of record 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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Comparison Differs from Aplosmilia by the variable process of increase and the weak development of branches. Differs from Codonosmilia by the columella. [details]Description Colonial corallum phaceloid in structure but with short branches irregularly related to each others. Corallites variable in size and shape, usually conical, laterally compressed, rarely free on their sides but joined to neighbouring corallites at a variable extent. Calices supervficial and elliptical. Exsert rhipidogyrid highly unequal costosepta with cutting arched distal edge. Lamellar deep columella. Thick granulated tectura. Mode of increase variable intra and extracalicinal. [details]
Remark Koby (1894) observed around a hundred samples and described in detail the variable gemmation process. An interpretation of the Cymosmilia conferta specimens, all originating from Gilley, as paedomorphic Aplosmilia in a special environment could be investigated. Another Oxfordian species was created by Bendukidze (1982). Beauvais in Draganescu and Beauvais (1985) used the genus for a Middle Jurassic solitary coral of Romania they attributed to C. tenuicaulata (Gregory) and considered that colonial specimens of Koby should be named Aplosmilia. Pandey and Fürsich (1993) reestablished Cymosmilia as a colonial coral and classified again the Gregory’s species in hits original genus Lophosmilia. [details]
