Scleractinia name details
Desmopsammia Reis, 1889 †
1439897 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1439897)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Genus
Desmophyllum subcylindricum Philippi, 1846 † accepted as Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) subcylindrica (Philippi, 1846) † (type by subsequent designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Reis, O.M. (1889). Die Korallen der Reiter Schichten. <em>Geognostische Jahreshefte.</em> 2: 91-162, pls. 1-4. [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Desmopsammia Reis, 1889 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1439897 on 2025-09-10
Date
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original description
Reis, O.M. (1889). Die Korallen der Reiter Schichten. <em>Geognostische Jahreshefte.</em> 2: 91-162, pls. 1-4. [details]
basis of record 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]
basis of record 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 Close to Cladopsammia but may in fact be solitary and thus closer to Balanophyllia. [details]Diagnosis Corallum colonial, corallites budding from a common basal coenosteum; septa in a Pourtalès plan. [details]
Remark Considered to be a dendrophylliid genus of uncertain position by Cairns (2001, p. 37) since the characteristics of the type species does not allow proper characterization. Two species, both fossil. [details]