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Solenosmilia Duncan, 1873 
AphiaID: 135101

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 Solenosmilia variabilis Duncan, 1873 (type by monotypy)
Parent Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846
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: 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., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details]

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[show all]		 Species Solenosmilia variabilis Duncan, 1873

Species Solenosmilia jeffreyi Alcock, 1898 accepted as Solenosmilia variabilis Duncan, 1873
Environment marine
Fossil range recent only
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 220-2165 m [details]
Images 
New Zealand Pyre Seamount, Graveyard seamount complex
[image from typetaxon]
New Zealand Pyre Seamount, Graveyard seamount complex
added on 2010-11-08 - author: Schnabel, Kareen ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Pyre Seamount, TAN0604/72
[image from typetaxon]
Pyre Seamount, TAN0604/72
added on 2010-11-09 - author: NIWA/ DTIS Seabed Image ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135101
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Hoeksema, Bert
2010-08-23 12:18:45Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
2010-09-09 20:29:02Z  changed  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Solenosmilia Duncan, 1873. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135101 on 2013-05-18
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