WoRMS taxon details
Dunocyathus Tenison-Woods, 1878
267400 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267400)
accepted
Genus
Dunocyathus parasiticus Tenison-Woods, 1878 (type by monotypy)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Tenison Woods, J. E. (1878). On the extratropical corals of Australia. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 2: 292-341, pls 4-6. [details]
Depth range 64-549 m
Depth range 64-549 m [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Dunocyathus Tenison-Woods, 1878. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267400 on 2025-07-13
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Nomenclature
original description
Tenison Woods, J. E. (1878). On the extratropical corals of Australia. <em>Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.</em> 2: 292-341, pls 4-6. [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]
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. (1997). A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Turbinoliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 591: 1-55. [details] Available for editors 
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[request]Other
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [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 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 Dennant J. (1906). Madreporaria from the Australian and New Zealand coasts. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 30: 151-165, pls. 5-6. [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [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 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 Dennant J. (1906). Madreporaria from the Australian and New Zealand coasts. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 30: 151-165, pls. 5-6. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Comparison Differs from Idiotrochus by having granular costae and a cylindrical corallum. [details]Diagnosis Corallum asexually reproduces by transverse division, the anthocyathus cylindrical (discoidal) in shape; GCD up to 6 mm; theca imperforate; costae independent and granular, alternating in position with septa; septa hexamerally arranged in 3 cycles; 1 crown of 12 P1-2; columella papillose. [details]
Remark This genus and family was monographed by Cairns (1997), which included a phylogenetic analysis based on morphology; see also Cairns and Parker (1992). Monotypic. [details]
Unreviewed
Biology azooxanthellate [details]Depth range 64-549 m [details]
