Scleractinia name details
Microtrochus Tenison-Woods, 1880 †
1510254 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1510254)
uncertain > nomen dubium
Genus
Microtrochus minutus Tenison-Woods, 1880 † (type by monotypy)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Tenison Woods, J. E. (1880). New corals from the Australian tertiaries. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 3: 99–101, pl. 4. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Microtrochus Tenison-Woods, 1880 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1510254 on 2026-07-12
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Tenison Woods, J. E. (1880). New corals from the Australian tertiaries. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 3: 99–101, pl. 4. [details]
basis of record 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]
source of synonymy 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]
status source Wells JW. (1956). Scleractinia. In: Moore RC (ed) Treatise on invertebrate paleontology F. Coelenterata. <em>Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press.</em> pp. F328–F440. [details]
status source Cairns, S.D. & M.V. Kitahara. (2022). Replacement name for the junior homonym Microtrochus Kitahara & Cairns, 2021 (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5175(2): 300., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.2.8 [details] Available for editors
basis of record 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]
source of synonymy 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]
status source Wells JW. (1956). Scleractinia. In: Moore RC (ed) Treatise on invertebrate paleontology F. Coelenterata. <em>Geological Society of America & University of Kansas Press.</em> pp. F328–F440. [details]
status source Cairns, S.D. & M.V. Kitahara. (2022). Replacement name for the junior homonym Microtrochus Kitahara & Cairns, 2021 (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5175(2): 300., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.2.8 [details] Available for editors