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Caryophyllia Lamarck, 1801

Caryophyllia cyathus (Ellis & Solander, 1786), calicular view

AphiaID

135085 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135085)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846

Parent

Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846

Original name

Caryophyllia Lamarck, 1801

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Subgenus Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
Subgenus Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) Lamarck, 1801
1. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) abrupta Cairns, 1999
2. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) abyssorum Duncan, 1873
3. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) alaskensis Vaughan, 1941
4. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) alberti Zibrowius, 1980
5. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) ambrosia Alcock, 1898
6. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) antarctica Marenzeller, 1904
7. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) antillarum Pourtal�s, 1874
8. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) arnoldi Vaughan, 1900
9. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) atlantica (Duncan, 1873)
10. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) balaenacea Zibrowius & Gili, 1990
11. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) barbadensis Cairns, 1979
12. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) berteriana Duchassaing, 1850
13. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) calveri Duncan, 1873
14. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) cintinculata (Alcock, 1898)
15. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) cornulum Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997
16. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) corrugata Cairns, 1979
17. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) crosnieri Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997
18. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) crypta Cairns, 2000
19. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) cyathus (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
20. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) diomedeae Marenzeller, 1904
21. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) eltaninae Cairns, 1982
22. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) ephyala Alcock, 1891
23. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) foresti Zibrowius, 1980
24. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) grandis Gardiner & Waugh, 1938
25. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) hawaiiensis Vaughan, 1907
26. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) horologium Cairns, 1977
27. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) huinayensis Cairns, H�ussermann & F�rsterra, 2005
28. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) inornata (Duncan, 1878)
29. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) japonica Marenzeller, 1888
30. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) jogashimaensis Eguchi, 1968
31. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) lamellifera Moseley, 1880
32. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) mabahithi Gardiner & Waugh, 1938
33. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) marmorea Cairns, 1984
34. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) octonaria Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997
35. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) octopali Vaughan, 1907
36. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) paradoxus Alcock, 1898
37. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) paucipalata Moseley, 1880
38. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) perculta Cairns, 1991
39. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) planilamellata Dennant, 1906
40. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) polygona Pourtal�s, 1878
41. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) profunda Moseley, 1880
42. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) quadragenaria Alcock, 1902
43. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) ralphae Cairns, 1995
44. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) rugosa Moseley, 1880
45. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) sarsiae Zibrowius, 1974
46. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) scobinosa Alcock, 1902
47. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) secta Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997
48. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) seguenzae Duncan, 1873
49. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) smithii Stokes & Broderip, 1828
50. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) solida Cairns, 1991
51. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) squiresi Cairns, 1982
52. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) stellula Cairns, 1998
53. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) transversalis Moseley, 1880
54. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) valdiviae Zibrowius & Gili, 1990
55. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) zopyros Cairns, 1979
56. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) capensis Gardiner, 1905 accepted as Monohedotrochus capensis (Gardiner, 1905) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
57. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) elongata Cairns in Cairns & Keller, 1993 accepted as Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) crosnieri Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, homonym)
58. Species Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) scillaeomorpha Alcock, 1894 accepted as Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) ephyala Alcock, 1891 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Syst�me des animaux sans vert�bres, ou tableau g�n�ral des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris. : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Caryophyllia Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135085 on 2025-05-11

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Caryophyllia Lamarck, 1801. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135085 on 2025-05-11

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2006-09-07 06:51:43Z

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Martinez, Olga

2010-08-26 07:11:38Z

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Cairns, Stephen

2010-09-14 23:09:58Z

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Cairns, Stephen

2018-08-09 16:47:36Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2020-01-12 17:20:22Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2022-06-04 11:51:25Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2023-12-31 09:27:46Z

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original description Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Syst�me des animaux sans vert�bres, ou tableau g�n�ral des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris. : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 [details]

basis of record Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details]

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additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers. [details]

additional source Pourtal�s, L. F.; De. (1878). Corals. In: Report on the Dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the United States Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieutenant-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., commanding. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. 5(9): 197-212, pl. 1., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30295850
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additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. Micronesica. 35-36: 121-137.
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additional source Amaral, F. D.; Hudson, M. M.; da Silveira, F. L.; Migotto, A. E.; Pinto, S. M.; Longo, L. (2002). Cnidarians of Saint Peter and St. Paul Archipelago, Northeast Brazil. Proceedings of the Ninth International Coral Reef Symposium. 1, 567-571.
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additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Oca�a, 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.S�nchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Zibrowius, H. (1974). Scleractiniares des Iles Saint Paul et Amsterdam (sud de L'Ocean Indien). Tethys, 5(4): 747-778
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additional source Murray, J.; Tizard, T. H. (1882). Exploration of the Faroe Channel, during the summer of 1880, in H.M.'s hired ship "Knight Errant". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 11, 638-677
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additional source F�rsterra, G.; H�ussermann, V. (2003). First report on large scleractinian (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) accumulations in cold-temperate shallow water of south Chilean fjords. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 345, 117-128
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additional source Marenzeller, E. V. (1904). Stein- und Hydro-Korallen. XXXIII Reports on the dredging operations ? by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard University), 43(2): 75-87
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additional source Schr�der-Ritzrau, A.; Freiwald, A.; Mangini, A. (2005). U/Th-dating of deep-water corals from the eastern North Atlantic and the western Mediterranean Sea. Andr� Freiwald and J. Murray Roberts (eds.). Springer. Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 157-172
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additional source Cecchini, C. (1917). Gli Alcionari e i Madreporari roccolti nel Mediterraneo dalla R. N. Archivio Zoologico Italiano, IX(1): 10
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additional source Wilson, J. B. (1979). 'Patch' development of the deep-water coral Lophelia pertusa (L.) on Rockall Bank. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 59, 165-177
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additional source Moore, D. R.; Bullis, H. R. (1960). A deep-water coral reef in the Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean, 10(1): 125-128
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additional source K�hlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Th�ringen) nebst �kologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolst�dter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
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additional source Vaughan TW. (1906). A new species of Coenocyathus from California and the Brazilian astrangid corals. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 30 (1477): 847-850, pls. 77-78., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.30-1477.847
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additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

redescription Cairns, S.D. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Studies on the Natural History of the Caribbean Region. 75: 1-231. [details] Available for editors

redescription Kitahara, M.V., S.D. Cairns & D.J. Miller. (2010). Monophyletic origin of Caryophyllia (Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae), with descriptions of six new species. Systematics and Biodiversity. 8(1): 91-118., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000903571088 [details] Available for editors

redescription Cairns, S.D. (1994). Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 557: 1-150. [details] Available for editors