WoRMS taxon details
Oxysmilia Duchassaing, 1870
AphiaID: 267664
AphiaID: 267664
| 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 | Lophosmilia rotundifolia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (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., 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 Oxysmilia corrugata Cairns, 1999 Species Oxysmilia rotundifolia (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Species Oxysmilia circularis Cairns, 1998 accepted as Monohedotrochus circularis (Cairns, 1998) Species Oxysmilia epithecata Cairns, 1999 accepted as Monohedotrochus epithecatus (Cairns, 1999) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | |||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 46-640 m [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267664 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Oxysmilia Duchassaing, 1870. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267664 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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