WoRMS taxon details
Heteropsammia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
205633 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205633)
accepted
Genus
Heteropsammia michelinii Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 accepted as Heteropsammia cochlea (Spengler, 1781) (type by monotypy)
- Species Heteropsammia cochlea (Spengler, 1781)
- Species Heteropsammia eupsammides (Gray, 1849)
- Species Heteropsammia moretonensis Wells, 1964
- Species Heteropsammia aequicostatus (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) accepted as Heterocyathus aequicostatus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Heteropsammia aphrodes Alcock, 1893 accepted as Heteropsammia cochlea (Spengler, 1781) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Heteropsammia elliptica Tenison-Woods, 1878 accepted as Balanophyllia (Balanophyllia) bairdiana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Heteropsammia geminata Verrill, 1870 accepted as Heteropsammia eupsammides (Gray, 1849) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Heteropsammia michelinii Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 accepted as Heteropsammia cochlea (Spengler, 1781) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Heteropsammia multilobata Moseley, 1880 accepted as Heteropsammia eupsammides (Gray, 1849) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Heteropsammia nipponica Yabe & Eguchi, 1932 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Species Heteropsammia pisum Alcock, 1902 accepted as Heteropsammia cochlea (Spengler, 1781) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Heteropsammia rotundata Semper, 1872 accepted as Heteropsammia cochlea (Spengler, 1781) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 3. Monographie des eupsammides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 10: 65-114, pls. 5-9. [details]
Depth range 1-622 m
Description Free living and highly mobile. Forms a symbiotic relationship with a sipunculid worm who lives "inside" the coral and moves...
Fossil range Late Miocene to Recent
Depth range 1-622 m [details]
Description Free living and highly mobile. Forms a symbiotic relationship with a sipunculid worm who lives "inside" the coral and moves...
Description Free living and highly mobile. Forms a symbiotic relationship with a sipunculid worm who lives "inside" the coral and moves it about (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
Fossil range Late Miocene to Recent
Fossil range Late Miocene to Recent [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Heteropsammia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205633 on 2025-07-01
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Nomenclature
original description
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 3. Monographie des eupsammides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 10: 65-114, pls. 5-9. [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Cairns, S.D. (2001). A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 615: 1-75., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.615 [details] Available for editors 
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additional source
Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D. (1999). Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. <em>In: Crosnier, A. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie.</em> 20(180): 31-167. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 132-133 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1980). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part III. Family Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectinidae, Caryophyllidae, Dendrophylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 4: 1-459. [details]
additional source Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Hoeksema BW, Best MB (1991) New observations on scleractinian corals from Indonesia: 2. Sipunculan-associated species belonging to the genera Heterocyathus and Heteropsammia. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 65: 221-245. [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 Baron-Szabo, R.C. & S.D. Cairns. (2019). Chapter 14: Part F, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 14:Systematic Descriptions of the Scleractinia Family Dendrophylliidae. <em>Treatise Online, Part F, Revised.</em> 119: 1-33. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Verrill, A. E. (1868-1870). Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 1, 6, 377-558.
page(s): 506 [details]
additional source Martens, V. (1876). Einiges aus den zoologischen Sammlungen. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1876, 18-21
page(s): 20 [details]
additional source van der Horst, C. J. (1922). The Madreporaria of the Siboga Expedition. Part III. Eupsammidae. Siboga-Expeditie Monographes, 16c, 46 [98] - 75 [127]
page(s): 67, 74, 75 [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D. (1999). Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. <em>In: Crosnier, A. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie.</em> 20(180): 31-167. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 132-133 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1980). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part III. Family Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectinidae, Caryophyllidae, Dendrophylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 4: 1-459. [details]
additional source Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Hoeksema BW, Best MB (1991) New observations on scleractinian corals from Indonesia: 2. Sipunculan-associated species belonging to the genera Heterocyathus and Heteropsammia. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 65: 221-245. [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 Baron-Szabo, R.C. & S.D. Cairns. (2019). Chapter 14: Part F, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 14:Systematic Descriptions of the Scleractinia Family Dendrophylliidae. <em>Treatise Online, Part F, Revised.</em> 119: 1-33. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Verrill, A. E. (1868-1870). Review of the corals and polyps of the west coast of America. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 1, 6, 377-558.
page(s): 506 [details]
additional source Martens, V. (1876). Einiges aus den zoologischen Sammlungen. Sitzungs-Berichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, 1876, 18-21
page(s): 20 [details]
additional source van der Horst, C. J. (1922). The Madreporaria of the Siboga Expedition. Part III. Eupsammidae. Siboga-Expeditie Monographes, 16c, 46 [98] - 75 [127]
page(s): 67, 74, 75 [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Corallum solitary and colonial (up to 40 corallites), always attached to a gastropod or scaphopod shell inhabited by a sipunculid worm; synapticulotheca ridged; Pourtalès plan present; paliform lobes may be present; columella spongy; azooxanthellate and zooxanthellate, depending on depth. [details]Remark This genus and family were monographed by Cairns (2001), which included a phylogenetic analysis based on morphology. The three species, one of which has a fossil record, are best described and discussed by Hoeksema and Best (1991). [details]
Unreviewed
Depth range 1-622 m [details]Description Free living and highly mobile. Forms a symbiotic relationship with a sipunculid worm who lives "inside" the coral and moves it about (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
Fossil range Late Miocene to Recent [details]
Remark Type species: Heteropsammia michelini Edwards & Haime, 1848 from the South China Sea (Veron, 1986). [details]
| Language | Name | |
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| Japanese | スツボサンゴ属 | [details] |
