Chinese Register of Marine Species - Conotrochus brunneus (Moseley, 1880)

Chinese
Register of
Marine Species
(ChaRMS)

ChaRMS taxon details

Conotrochus brunneus (Moseley, 1880)

Conotrochus funicolumna

AphiaID

289705 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:289705)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Conotrochus Seguenza, 1864

Original name

Pleurocyathus brunneus Moseley, 1880

Synonymised names

Conotrochus funicolumna (Alcock, 1902) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Moseley, H.N. (1881 [1880]). Report on certain hydroid, alcyonarian, and madreporarian corals procured during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, in the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 2 (part 7): 1-248, pl. Hydrocorallinae 1-14, Helioporidae 1-2, Madreporaria 1-16., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-07/README.htm [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Conotrochus brunneus (Moseley, 1880). 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=289705 on 2026-07-18

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. Conotrochus brunneus (Moseley, 1880). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=289705 on 2026-07-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-08-20 16:08:38Z

checked

Cairns, Stephen

2020-07-31 08:21:44Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2020-08-02 09:28:08Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-28 06:03:47Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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original description (of ) Moseley, H.N. (1881 [1880]). Report on certain hydroid, alcyonarian, and madreporarian corals procured during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, in the years 1873–1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology. 2 (part 7): 1-248, pl. Hydrocorallinae 1-14, Helioporidae 1-2, Madreporaria 1-16., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-07/README.htm [details]

context source (Deepsea) Cairns, Stephen (look up in IMIS) [details]

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

basis of record Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D. (2009-2017). On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D. (2004). The azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum. 56(3): 259-329., available online at https://doi.org/10.3853/j.0067-1975.56.2004.1434
page(s): 265, 272, 278, 328 [details] Available for editors

additional source Cairns, S.D. (1999). Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. In: Crosnier, A. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 20(180): 31-167. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers.
page(s): 607 [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D. & N.B. Keller. (1993). New taxa and distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. Annals of the South African Museum. 103(5): 213-292, 13 pls. [details] Available for editors

additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. Atoll Research Bulletin. 459: 13-46.
page(s): 21 [details] Available for editors

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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. 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

additional source Kitahara, M.V., Cairns, S.D. (2021). Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa) from New Caledonia. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 215:1-722. [details] Available for editors

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. & H. Zibrowius. (1997). Cnidaria Anthozoa: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. in: Crosnier, A. et al. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 16. Campagne Franco-Indonésienne KARUBAR. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 172: 27-244. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

new combination reference Gardiner JS, Waugh P. (1938). The flabellid and turbinolid corals. Scientific reports of the John Murray Expedition, 1933-34, British Museum (Natural History). London. 5 (7): 167-202. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) (from synonym Conotrochus funicolumna (Alcock, 1902))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Conotrochus funicolumna (Alcock, 1902))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Conotrochus funicolumna) (from synonym Conotrochus funicolumna (Alcock, 1902))
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins) (from synonym Conotrochus funicolumna (Alcock, 1902))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (120 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (131 records) (from synonym Conotrochus funicolumna (Alcock, 1902))
To ITIS

From editor or global species database

Conotrochus funicolumna

Image from synonym