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Dasmosmilia Pourtalès, 1880 
AphiaID: 135091

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Parasmilia lymani Pourtalès, 1871 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846
Synonymised
taxa
  Dasosmilia (misspelling)
Goniocyathus Yabe & Eguchi, 1932
Sources  basis of record: Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema, and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A. F. Budd, B. Lathuiliere, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski, and K. G. Johnson (2010). Corallosphere, available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 2000. A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Stud. Nat. Hist. Carib. Reg. 75: 321 pp., 215 figs.  [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Dasmosmilia lymani (Pourtalès, 1871)
Species Dasmosmilia valida (Marenzeller, 1907)
Species Dasmosmilia variegata (Pourtalès, 1871)

Species Dasmosmilia marchadi Chevalier, 1966 accepted as Anomocora marchadi (Chevalier, 1966)
Species Dasmosmilia pacifica (Yabe & Eguchi, 1932) accepted as Dasmosmilia lymani (Pourtalès, 1871)
Environment marine
Fossil range recent + fossil
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 37-600 m [details]

Fossil range: Upper Cretaceous to Recent [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135091
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hoeksema, Bert
2006-07-31 06:57:06Z  changed  Camba Reu, Cibran
2010-09-13 23:22:01Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Dasmosmilia Pourtalès, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135091 on 2013-05-20
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