UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Blastotrochus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

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Blastotrochus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Label from a syntype of Blastotrochus nutrix Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

AphiaID

267267 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267267)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Blastotrochus nutrix Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Flabellidae Bourne, 1905

Original name

Blastotrochus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Synonymised names

Flabellum (Blastotrochus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 · unaccepted > superseded combination

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Species Blastotrochus nutrix Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3. 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details]

Descriptive notes

Depth range 11-18 m

Depth range 11-18 m [details]

Fossil range Miocene to Recent

Fossil range Miocene to Recent [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Blastotrochus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267267 on 2025-05-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-14 11:18:07Z

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van der Land, Jacob

2010-08-26 07:38:55Z

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Cairns, Stephen

2010-09-16 22:52:29Z

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Cairns, Stephen

2019-10-08 20:42:32Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2020-01-27 17:40:28Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2022-06-21 08:49:27Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

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Nomenclature

original description Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3. 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details]

basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]

Taxonomy

redescription Cairns, S.D. (1989). A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 486: 1-136. [details] Available for editors

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Other

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D. (2016). A key to the genera and species of the transversely-dividing Flabellidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia, Flabellidae), with a guide to the literature, and the description of two new species. ZooKeys. 562: 1-48., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.562.7310 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details]

Unreviewed

Biology azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range 11-18 m [details]

Fossil range Miocene to Recent [details]

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