URMO logo
Introduction | Search taxa | Taxon tree | Literature | Statistics

Scleractinia taxon details

Tropidocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Lateral view of corallum
Lateral view of corallum

267928  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267928)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Refertina (Suborder)
  8. Turbinoliidae (Family)
  9. Tropidocyathus (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Trochocyathus (Tropidocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Ordering

  • Alphabetically
  • By status

Children Display

  1. Species Tropidocyathus labidus Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997
  2. Species Tropidocyathus lessonii (Michelin, 1842)
  3. Species Tropidocyathus minimus Filkorn, 1994 †
  4. Species Tropidocyathus seymourensis Filkorn, 1994 †
  5. Species Tropidocyathus affinis Martin, 1880 † accepted as Cyathotrochus affinis (Martin, 1880) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  6. Species Tropidocyathus bouganvillei Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 accepted as Cyathotrochus pileus (Alcock, 1902) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  7. Species Tropidocyathus cooperi Gardiner, 1905 accepted as Trochocyathus (Trochocyathus) cooperi (Gardiner, 1905) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  8. Species Tropidocyathus herdmani (Bourne, 1905) accepted as Cyathotrochus pileus (Alcock, 1902) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  9. Species Tropidocyathus intermedius Yabe & Eguchi, 1932 accepted as Cyathotrochus pileus (Alcock, 1902) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  10. Species Tropidocyathus lessoni (Michelin, 1842) accepted as Tropidocyathus lessonii (Michelin, 1842) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
  11. Species Tropidocyathus longiseptum Latypov, 2017 accepted as Endopachys grayi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  12. Species Tropidocyathus nascornatus Gardiner & Waugh, 1938 accepted as Cyathotrochus nascornatus (Gardiner & Waugh, 1938) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  13. Species Tropidocyathus nudus Martin, 1880 † accepted as Cyathotrochus nudus (Martin, 1880) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  14. Species Tropidocyathus pileus (Alcock, 1902) accepted as Cyathotrochus pileus (Alcock, 1902) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  15. Species Tropidocyathus wellsi (Yabe & Eguchi, 1942) accepted as Tropidocyathus lessonii (Michelin, 1842) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Trochocyathus (Tropidocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details] 
Depth range 50-536 m  
Depth range 50-536 m [details]

Fossil range Late Cretaceous to Recent  
Fossil range Late Cretaceous to Recent [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Tropidocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267928 on 2025-05-05
Date
action
by
2008-01-14 11:18:07Z
created
van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-23 14:57:18Z
changed
Cairns, Stephen
2010-09-05 14:32:08Z
changed
Cairns, Stephen
2018-07-16 08:05:18Z
changed
Hoeksema, Bert
2019-10-07 17:46:09Z
changed
Hoeksema, Bert
2022-06-24 11:12:51Z
changed
Hoeksema, Bert

original description (of Trochocyathus (Tropidocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [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): 135 [details] 

additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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 Filkorn HF. (1994). Fossil Scleractinian Corals from James Ross Basin, Antarctica. <em>Antarctic Research Series.</em> 65: 1-96., available online at https://doi.org/10.1029/ar065 [details] 

redescription Cairns, S.D. (1995). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Memoir.</em> 103: 1-210. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

redescription Cairns, S.D. (1989). A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 486: 1-136. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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  PDF available
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Comparison Differs from Cyathotrochus in having granular, trifurcating costae and alate edge costae. [details]

Diagnosis Corallum cuneiform, with a rounded base and prominent granular, alate edge crests; GCD up to 16 mm; theca imperforate; costae granular, higher cycle costae originating by trifurcation; septa hexamerally arranged in 4 cycles; P1-3 prominent in 3 crowns; columella papillose. [details]

Remark This genus and family was monographed by Cairns (1997), which included a phylogenetic analysis based on morphology. Four species are placed in this genus (Cairns, 1997; Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997), the two late Cretaceous species (Filkorn, 1994) being tentative. [details]

Unreviewed
Biology azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range 50-536 m [details]

Fossil range Late Cretaceous to Recent [details]
    Definitions

Loading...


To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tropidocyathus) 
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Lateral view of corallum
Lateral view of corallum
Calicular view of corallum
Calicular view of corallum
view of costal granulation
view of costal granulation

Website and databases developed and hosted by VLIZ · Page generated 2025-05-05 GMT · contact: