WoRMS taxon details
Polycyathus Duncan, 1876
AphiaID: 135098
AphiaID: 135098
| 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 | Polycyathus atlanticus Duncan, 1876 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Agelecyathus Duncan, 1876 | |||||||||||||
| 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] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [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] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Polycyathus andamanensis Alcock, 1893 Species Polycyathus andamanicus Alcock, 1893 Species Polycyathus atlanticus Duncan, 1876 Species Polycyathus chaishanensis Lin, Kitahara, Tachikawa, Keshavmurthy & Chen, 2012 Species Polycyathus difficilis Duncan, 1889 Species Polycyathus fulvus Wijsman-Best, 1970 Species Polycyathus furanaensis Verheij & Best, 1987 Species Polycyathus fuscomarginatus (Klunzinger, 1879) Species Polycyathus hodgsoni Verheij & Best, 1987 Species Polycyathus hondaensis (Durham & Barnard, 1952) Species Polycyathus isabela Wells, 1982 Species Polycyathus marigondoni Verheij & Best, 1987 Species Polycyathus mayae Cairns, 2000 Species Polycyathus muellerae (Abel, 1959) Species Polycyathus norfolkensis Cairns, 1995 Species Polycyathus octuplus Cairns, 1999 Species Polycyathus palifera (Verrill, 1869) Species Polycyathus persicus (Duncan, 1876) Species Polycyathus senegalensis Chevalier, 1966 Species Polycyathus verrilli Duncan, 1889 Species Polycyathus banyulensis Best, 1968 accepted as Polycyathus muellerae (Abel, 1959) Species Polycyathus conceptus (Gardiner & Waugh, 1938) accepted as Paracyathus conceptus Gardiner & Waugh, 1938 Species Polycyathus mediterraneus Best, 1968 accepted as Polycyathus banyulensis Best, 1968 accepted as Polycyathus muellerae (Abel, 1959) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 0-441 m [details] Taxonomic Remark: Placed in family Rhizangiidae according to Best (1987) [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135098 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Polycyathus Duncan, 1876. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135098 on 2013-05-21 | ||||||||||||||
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