Chinese Register of Marine Species - Rhizotrochus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

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Rhizotrochus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Label for holotype of Rhizotrochus typus (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)

AphiaID

205741 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205741)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Rhizotrochus typus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Flabellidae Bourne, 1905

Original name

Rhizotrochus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

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Species Rhizotrochus typus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Environment

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

Original description

Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3. 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Rhizotrochus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. 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=205741 on 2026-08-07

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. Rhizotrochus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205741 on 2026-08-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-28 06:51:36Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-09-16 22:52:29Z

checked

Cairns, Stephen

2019-10-12 20:22:42Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2020-01-27 17:40:28Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-07-23 14:16:47Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

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.
page(s): 136 [details]

additional source 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]

additional source Verrill, A. E. (1868-1870). Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 1, 6, 377-558.
page(s): 535 [details]

additional source Tokuda Y, Ezaki Y. (2013). Attachment structures in Rhizotrochus (Scleractinia): macro- to microscopic traits and their evolutionary significance. Lethaia. 46(2): 232-244., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12013 [details]

additional source Haime, J.; Milne Edwards, H. In: Milne Edwards, H. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details]

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. (1989). A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 486: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.486 [details] Available for editors

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