Scleractinia name details
Brachycyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †
1290006 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1290006)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Genus
- Species Brachycyathus orbignyanus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †
- Species Brachycyathus parvus Brünnich Nielsen, 1922 †
- Species Brachycyathus henekeni Duncan, 1863 † accepted as Paracyathus henekeni (Duncan, 1863) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Brachycyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1290006 on 2025-09-11
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Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [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 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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Remark Vaughan and Wells (1943) and Wells (1956) stated that Brachycyathus Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848, represented a junior synonym of Discocyathus Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848. Because Milne Edwards and Haime (1848, p. 295) gave the description of Brachycyathus before Discocyathus (see Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848, p. 295-296), the synonymy should have been vice versa. However, because Discocyathus has been given priority over Brachycyathus for at least 5 decades and in order to avoid further confusion, the latter is kept in synonymy (Baron-Szabo, 2002). [details]