Chinese Register of Marine Species - Dendrophyllia de Blainville, 1830

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Dendrophyllia de Blainville, 1830

Dendrophyllia sp.

AphiaID

135110 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135110)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Dendrophylliidae Gray, 1847

Parent

Dendrophylliidae Gray, 1847

Original name

Dendrophyllia de Blainville, 1830

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Species Dendrophyllia alcocki (Wells, 1954)
Species Dendrophyllia cribrosa Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
Species Dendrophyllia florulenta Alcock, 1902

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

de Blainville, H. M. (1830). Zoophytes. In: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traitre méthodiquement des differéns êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utlité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Edited by F. G. Levrault. Tome 60. Paris, Le Normat. Pp. 548, pls. 68. Paris, 1830. 60 : 1-546., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25318344 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Dendrophyllia de Blainville, 1830. Accessed through: Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2025) Chinese Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135110 on 2026-06-27

Regional species database citation

Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Dendrophyllia de Blainville, 1830. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135110 on 2026-06-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2006-07-31 06:57:06Z

changed

Camba Reu, Cibran

2010-09-07 13:48:11Z

checked

Cairns, Stephen

2019-05-20 08:13:48Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-15 06:23:49Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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original description de Blainville, H. M. (1830). Zoophytes. In: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traitre méthodiquement des differéns êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utlité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Edited by F. G. Levrault. Tome 60. Paris, Le Normat. Pp. 548, pls. 68. Paris, 1830. 60 : 1-546., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25318344 [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 Zabala, M.; Maluquer, P.; Harmelin, J.-G. (1993). Epibiotic bryozoans on deep-water scleractinian corals from the Catalonia Slope (western Mediterranean, Spain, France). Scientia Marina. 57: 65-78.
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additional source Baron-Szabo, R.C. & S.D. Cairns. (2019). Chapter 14: Part F, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 14:Systematic Descriptions of the Scleractinia Family Dendrophylliidae. Treatise Online, Part F, Revised. 119: 1-33., available online at https://doi.org/10.17161/to.v0i0.9825 [details] Available for editors

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 van der Horst, C. J. (1922). The Madreporaria of the Siboga Expedition. Part III. Eupsammidae. Siboga-Expeditie Monographes, 16c, 46 [98] - 75 [127]
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additional source Goffredo, S.; Radetić, J.; Airi, V.; Zaccanti, F. (2005). Sexual reproduction of the solitary sunset cup coral Leptopsammia pruvoti (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) in the Mediterranean. 1. Morphological aspects of the gametogenesis and ontogenesis. Marine Biology, 147, 485-495, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-005-1567-z
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additional source Sheppard, C. R. C. (1985). Fringing reefs in the southern region, Jeddah to Jizan. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 37-58
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redescription Cairns, S.D. (1995). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa. New Zealand Oceanographic Memoir. 103: 1-210. [details] Available for editors

redescription Cairns, S.D. (2001). A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 615: 1-75., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.615 [details] Available for editors

status source Potts DC. (1995). Porites Link, 1807, Galaxea Oken, 1815, Mussa Oken, 1815 and Dendrophyllia Blainville, 1830 (Anthozoa, Scleractinia): proposed conservation. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 52: 142-147., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.6750 [details]

status source ICZN. (2004). Opinion 2061 (Case 2900) Porites Link, 1807, Galaxea Oken, 1815, Mussa Oken, 1815 and Dendrophyllia Blainville, 1830 (Anthozoa, Scleractinia): proposed conservation. The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 61: 51-53., available online at https://archive.org/details/biostor-80457 [details]