Scleractinia name details

Ceratocyathus prolifer Pourtalès, 1871

509357 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:509357)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Vacatina (Suborder)
  8. Caryophylliidae (Family)
  9. Ceratocyathus (Genus)
  10. Ceratocyathus prolifer (Species)
 unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Anomocora prolifera (Pourtalès, 1871)
Species
Ceratocyathus Seguenza, 1861 accepted as Caryophyllia Lamarck, 1801
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Pourtalès L.F. de. (1871). Deep-sea corals. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College.</em> 2 (4): 1-93, pls. 1-8., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13636 [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Ceratocyathus prolifer Pourtalès, 1871. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=509357 on 2026-08-11
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2010-08-22 15:01:56Z
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Cairns, Stephen
2020-04-09 17:25:08Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2022-06-24 11:12:51Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2025-10-31 21:15:13Z
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Hoeksema, Bert

original description Pourtalès L.F. de. (1871). Deep-sea corals. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College.</em> 2 (4): 1-93, pls. 1-8., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13636 [details] 

basis of record Squires, D. F. (1959). Deep sea corals collected by the Lamont Geological Observatory. 1 Atlantic corals. American Museum Novitates, 1965, 1-42 [details] 

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