Scleractinia taxon details
Circophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †
1290894 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1290894)
accepted
Genus
Anthophyllum truncatum Goldfuss, 1826 † accepted as Circophyllia truncata (Goldfuss, 1826) † (type by original designation)
Felixopsammia Filliozat, 1910 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Circophyllia alpina Gümbel, 1861 †
- Species Circophyllia clevei Duncan, 1873 †
- Species Circophyllia compressa Duncan, 1873 †
- Species Circophyllia conica Michelotti, 1871 †
- Species Circophyllia cylindroides Reuss, 1869 †
- Species Circophyllia darchiardii Oppenheim, 1901 †
- Species Circophyllia elliptica d'Achiardi, 1875 †
- Species Circophyllia farquharsoni Latham, 1829 †
- Species Circophyllia truncata (Goldfuss, 1826) †
- Species Circophyllia vertebralis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851) †
- Subgenus Circophyllia (Antillia) Duncan, 1864 † accepted as Antillia Duncan, 1864 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Circophyllia (Antillia) guesdesi (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) † accepted as Antillia guesdesii Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864 † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subgenus Circophyllia (Leptaxis) Reuss, 1868 † accepted as Cricocyathus Quenstedt, 1879 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Note sur la classification de la deuxième tribu de la famille des Astréides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 27: 490–497., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.29692 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Circophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1290894 on 2026-10-14
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Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Note sur la classification de la deuxième tribu de la famille des Astréides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 27: 490–497., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.29692 [details]
original description (of Felixopsammia Filliozat, 1910 †) Filliozat M. (1910). Types nouveaux de polypiers Éocène. <em>Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, série 4.</em> 10: 791-807, pl. 14. [details]
basis of record 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 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 Filliozat M. (1914). Sur le genre Circophyllia Milne Edwards et Haime, 1848. <em>Compte rendu sommaire des séances de la Société géologique de France.</em> 10: 96-97. [details]
additional source Gregory JW, Trench JB. (1916). Eocene Corals from the Fly River, Central New Guinea. <em>The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade 6.</em> 3 (11): 481-488, pls. 19-20, (12): 529-536, pls. 21-22., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800208297 [details]
original description (of Felixopsammia Filliozat, 1910 †) Filliozat M. (1910). Types nouveaux de polypiers Éocène. <em>Bulletin de la Société Géologique de France, série 4.</em> 10: 791-807, pl. 14. [details]
basis of record 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 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 Filliozat M. (1914). Sur le genre Circophyllia Milne Edwards et Haime, 1848. <em>Compte rendu sommaire des séances de la Société géologique de France.</em> 10: 96-97. [details]
additional source Gregory JW, Trench JB. (1916). Eocene Corals from the Fly River, Central New Guinea. <em>The Geological Magazine, New Series, Decade 6.</em> 3 (11): 481-488, pls. 19-20, (12): 529-536, pls. 21-22., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016756800208297 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
