WoRMS taxon details
Thalamophyllia Duchassaing, 1870
135104 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135104)
accepted
Genus
Desmophyllum rusei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 accepted as Thalamophyllia riisei (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) (type by monotypy)
- Species Thalamophyllia gasti (Döderlein, 1913)
- Species Thalamophyllia gombergi Cairns, 1979
- Species Thalamophyllia riisei (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860)
- Species Thalamophyllia senaria Kitahara & Cairns, 2021
- Species Thalamophyllia tenuescens (Gardiner, 1899)
- Species Thalamophyllia wirtzi Ocana & Brito, 2015
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P. (1870). Revue des Zoophytes et des Spongiaires des Antilles. <em>Masson, Paris.</em> 1-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.69814 [details] 
Depth range 4-1317 m
Depth range 4-1317 m [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Thalamophyllia Duchassaing, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135104 on 2025-05-03
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Nomenclature
original description
Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P. (1870). Revue des Zoophytes et des Spongiaires des Antilles. <em>Masson, Paris.</em> 1-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.69814 [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
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 
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redescription Cairns, S.D. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. <em>Studies on the Natural History of the Caribbean Region.</em> 75: 1-231. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]redescription Cairns, S.D. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. <em>Studies on the Natural History of the Caribbean Region.</em> 75: 1-231. [details] Available for editors
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context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Daly, M.M., Fautin D.G., Cappola V.A., 2003. Systematics of the Hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 3: 419-437.
page(s): 424-425, 427-428 [details] Available for editors [request]
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 Daly, M.M., Fautin D.G., Cappola V.A., 2003. Systematics of the Hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 3: 419-437.
page(s): 424-425, 427-428 [details] Available for editors
[request]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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Comparison Differs from Desmophyllum in having a colonial (reptoid) corallum. [details]Diagnosis Corallum colonial, forming reptoid colonies by extracalicular budding from stolons; corallites ceratoid; pali and columella missing; no endotheca. [details]
Remark Four Recent species. [details]
Unreviewed
Biology azooxanthellate [details]Depth range 4-1317 m [details]
