Scleractinia taxon details
Cunnolites Alloiteau, 1952 †
1290930 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1290930)
accepted
Genus
Cunnolites barrerei Alloiteau, 1952 † (type by subsequent designation)
Plesiocunnolites Alloiteau, 1957 † · unaccepted (synonymy)
- Subgenus Cunnolites (Cunnolites) Alloiteau, 1952 †
- Species Cunnolites (Cunnolites) macrostoma (Reuss, 1854) †
- Species Cunnolites (Cunnolites) profundus (Oppenheim, 1930) †
- Species Cunnolites (Cunnolites) reussi (de Fromentel, 1863) †
- Species Cunnolites (Cunnolites) tenuiradiatus (de Fromentel, 1864) †
- Species Cunnolites (Cunnolites) tenuiradiata (de Fromentel, 1864) † accepted as Cunnolites (Cunnolites) tenuiradiatus (de Fromentel, 1864) † (wrong spelling species name)
- Subgenus Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) L. Beauvais, 1964 †
- Species Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) humilis (Quenstedt, 1880) †
- Species Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) minumum (de Fromentel, 1863) †
- Species Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) riyadhensis Gameil, El-Sorogy & Al-Kahtany, 2020 †
- Species Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) undulatus (Goldfuss, 1826) †
- Species Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) minima (de Fromentel, 1863) † accepted as Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) minumum (de Fromentel, 1863) † (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
- Species Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) orbignyi (de Fromentel, 1864) † accepted as Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolites) orbignyi (de Fromentel, 1864) † (changed combination)
- Species Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) undulata (Goldfuss, 1826) † accepted as Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) undulatus (Goldfuss, 1826) † (wrong spelling species name)
- Subgenus Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolites) Alloiteau, 1957 †
- Species Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolites) orbignyi (de Fromentel, 1864) †
- Species Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolites) subcircularis (Oppenheim, 1930) †
- Species Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolites) undulata (Goldfuss, 1826) † accepted as Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) undulatus (Goldfuss, 1826) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subgenus Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolitopsis) L. Beauvais, 1964 †
- Species Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolitopsis) longifossata (Češmedžieva, 1973) †
- Species Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolitopsis) robustum (Quenstedt, 1880) †
- Species Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolitopsis) robusta (Quenstedt, 1880) † accepted as Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolitopsis) robustum (Quenstedt, 1880) † (wrong spelling species name)
- Species Cunnolites barrerei Alloiteau, 1952 †
- Species Cunnolites trifurcata Gameil, 2005 †
- Species Cunnolites humilis (Quenstedt, 1880) † represented as Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) humilis (Quenstedt, 1880) †
- Species Cunnolites longifossata (Češmedžieva, 1973) † represented as Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolitopsis) longifossata (Češmedžieva, 1973) †
- Species Cunnolites macrostoma (Reuss, 1854) † represented as Cunnolites (Cunnolites) macrostoma (Reuss, 1854) †
- Species Cunnolites minimum (de Fromentel, 1863) † represented as Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) minima (de Fromentel, 1863) † accepted as Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) minumum (de Fromentel, 1863) †
- Species Cunnolites orbignyi (de Fromentel, 1864) † represented as Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolites) orbignyi (de Fromentel, 1864) †
- Species Cunnolites profundus (Oppenheim, 1930) † represented as Cunnolites (Cunnolites) profundus (Oppenheim, 1930) †
- Species Cunnolites reussi (de Fromentel, 1863) † represented as Cunnolites (Cunnolites) reussi (de Fromentel, 1863) †
- Species Cunnolites riyadhensis Gameil, El-Sorogy & Al-Kahtany, 2020 † represented as Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) riyadhensis Gameil, El-Sorogy & Al-Kahtany, 2020 †
- Species Cunnolites robustum Quenstedt, 1880 † represented as Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolitopsis) robustum (Quenstedt, 1880) †
- Species Cunnolites subcircularis (Oppenheim, 1930) † represented as Cunnolites (Plesiocunnolites) subcircularis (Oppenheim, 1930) †
- Species Cunnolites tenuiradiatus (de Fromentel, 1864) † represented as Cunnolites (Cunnolites) tenuiradiatus (de Fromentel, 1864) †
- Species Cunnolites undulatus (Goldfuss, 1826) † represented as Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) undulatus (Goldfuss, 1826) †
- Species Cunnolites haueri (Michelin, 1846) † (uncertain > unassessed)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Alloiteau J. (1952). Embranchement des Coelentérés. Madreporaires Post-Paleozoiques. <em>In: Piveteau J, ed. Traité de Paléontologie, Paris: Masson.</em> 539–684, pls. 1-10. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Cunnolites Alloiteau, 1952 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1290930 on 2025-05-15
original description
Alloiteau J. (1952). Embranchement des Coelentérés. Madreporaires Post-Paleozoiques. <em>In: Piveteau J, ed. Traité de Paléontologie, Paris: Masson.</em> 539–684, pls. 1-10. [details]
original description (of Plesiocunnolites Alloiteau, 1957 †) Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. <em>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.</em> pp 462. [details]
additional source Rehfeld, U.; Ernst, G. (1998). Hydrozoan build-ups of Millepora irregularis sp. nov. and fungiid coral meadows of Cunnolites Alloiteau (Anthozoa)—Palaeoecological and palaeoceanographical implications for the upper cretaceous of North Cantabria (Northern Spain). <em>Facies.</em> 39(1), 125-138., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02537014 [details]
original description (of Plesiocunnolites Alloiteau, 1957 †) Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. <em>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.</em> pp 462. [details]
additional source Rehfeld, U.; Ernst, G. (1998). Hydrozoan build-ups of Millepora irregularis sp. nov. and fungiid coral meadows of Cunnolites Alloiteau (Anthozoa)—Palaeoecological and palaeoceanographical implications for the upper cretaceous of North Cantabria (Northern Spain). <em>Facies.</em> 39(1), 125-138., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02537014 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Solitary, cunnolitid (cupolate), free, circular or elliptical in outline. Base flat to concave. Calicular pit circular or elongate. Septa perforate (younger septa) to subcompact. Columella absent or feebly developed, trabecular. Synapticulae abundant. Endothecal dissepiments thin, sparse. Epitheca present or absent. [details]Remark The validity of the genus Cunnolites has been discussed for about 250 years. Originally, the name Cunnolites was created 'prae-Linnean' by Barrère (1746), and was 'post-Linnean' renamed by Guettard, 1774, as Porpites ellipticus. Lamarck (1801) re-assigned the same specimen again and placed it as the third species in his newly created genus Cyclolites (= Cyclolites ellipticus Lamarck, 1801). Later investigations by Milne Edwards and Haime (1850) revealed that the two species placed before Cyclolites ellipticus, which are Cyclolites numismalis and Cyclolites hemisphaerica, belonged to Palaeozoic forms and had to be excluded from the synonymy of Cyclolites. At the same time they chose Cyclolites ellipticus Lamarck to be the type species of the genus. For priority reasons Alloiteau (1952a, 1957) did not accept the revision by Milne Edwards and Haime (1850). He argued that if the author of a new genus presented more than one species but does not designate a type species then the first species listed had to be acknowledged as the type species. And because in the case of Cyclolites the first species represents the type species of the Palaeozoic taxon Palaeocyclus Milne Edwards and Haime, he denied the validity of the genus Cyclolites and created the taxon Cunnolites. This revision caused confusion in the literature in that some authors started using the new name established by Alloiteau, whereas others kept to the traditional name by Lamarck. The problematic situation was even more complicated by the creation of new genera named Plesiocunnolites Alloiteau, 1957, Plesiocunnolitopsis M. Beauvais, 1964, and Paracunnolites M. Beauvais, 1964. Some authors have accepted these as valid genera, others have ranked them in the subgenus level of Cyclolites or Cunnolites, and still others have put them in synonymy of Cyclolites or Cunnolites. This case can only be resolved by the Commission of Zoological Nomenclature. However, in order to avoid further confusion, the name Cunnolites, based on the type species Cunnolites barrerei Alloiteau, 1957, has been tentatively accepted (Baron-Szabo, 2002) with all the consequences for higher taxonomic levels (e.g. giving the family name of Cunnolitidae Alloiteau, 1952a, priority over Cyclolitidae d'Orbigny, 1851). [details]
