WoRMS taxon details
Monohedotrochus Kitahara & Cairns, 2005
AphiaID: 492268
AphiaID: 492268
| 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 | Monohedotrochus capitolii Kitahara & Cairns, 2005 (type by original designation) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Kitahara, M.V. and S.D. Cairns, 2005. Monohedotrochus capitolii, a new genus and species of solitary azooxanthellate coral (Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae) from southern Brazil. Zool. Meded. Leiden, 79-2(5): 115-121. [details] basis of record: 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] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Monohedotrochus capitolii Kitahara & Cairns, 2005 Species Monohedotrochus circularis (Cairns, 1998) Species Monohedotrochus epithecatus (Cairns, 1999) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 150-1200 m [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:492268 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Monohedotrochus Kitahara & Cairns, 2005. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492268 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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