WoRMS taxon details
Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
503252 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:503252)
accepted
Subgenus
Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) grayi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) (type by subsequent designation)
Acanthocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) antiquior (Reuss, 1869) †
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) decamera Cairns, 1998
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) dentata (Moseley, 1880)
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) grayi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848)
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) guangdongensis Zou, 1984
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) hastingsae (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) †
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) karubarica Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) laterocristatus (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) †
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) malayicus (Gerth, 1923) †
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) spinicarens (Moseley, 1880)
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) spinigera (Saville Kent, 1871)
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) spinosa (Umbgrove, 1950) †
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) transilvanicus (Reuss, 1872) †
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) unicristata Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) verrucosus (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) †
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) versicostatus (Michelin, 1841) †
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) vindobonensis (Reuss, 1872) †
- Species Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) zanzibarensis Zou, 1984
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Acanthocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details]
Depth range 37-750 m
Fossil range Miocene to Recent
Depth range 37-750 m [details]
Fossil range Miocene to Recent
Fossil range Miocene to Recent [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=503252 on 2024-09-22
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(of Acanthocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D. (2009-2017). On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. <em>In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats.</em> Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [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 Kitahara, M.V., S.D. Cairns & D.J. Miller. (2010). Monophyletic origin of Caryophyllia (Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae), with descriptions of six new species. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 8(1): 91-118., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000903571088 [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Cairns, S.D. (2009-2017). On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. <em>In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats.</em> Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [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 Kitahara, M.V., S.D. Cairns & D.J. Miller. (2010). Monophyletic origin of Caryophyllia (Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae), with descriptions of six new species. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 8(1): 91-118., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000903571088 [details] Available for editors [request]
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Diagnosis Like Caryophyllia, but having thecal edge spines or crests. [details]Remark About a dozen fossil species and 9 Recent species. See Cairns and Zibrowius (1997) for a revision of the Recent species. [details]
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Biology azooxanthellate [details]Depth range 37-750 m [details]
Fossil range Miocene to Recent [details]
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