WoRMS taxon details
Labyrinthocyathus Cairns, 1979
AphiaID: 267538
AphiaID: 267538
| 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 | Labyrinthocyathus langae Cairns, 1979 (type by original designation) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Cairns, S.D., 1979. The deep-water Scleractinia of the Caribbean and adjacent waters. Stud. Fauna Curacao, 57 (180): 341 pp. [details] basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. Stylasteridae, Scleractinia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Labyrinthocyathus delicatus (Marenzeller, 1904) Species Labyrinthocyathus facetus Cairns, 1979 Species Labyrinthocyathus langae Cairns, 1979 Species Labyrinthocyathus limatulus (Squires, 1964) Species Labyrinthocyathus quaylei (Durham, 1947) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 20-1000 m [details] Fossil range: Eocene to Recent [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267538 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Labyrinthocyathus Cairns, 1979. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267538 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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