World Register of Deep-Sea species - Anthemiphylliidae Vaughan, 1907

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Anthemiphylliidae Vaughan, 1907

AphiaID

196097 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196097)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Type taxon

Anthemiphyllia Pourtalès, 1878 (type by original designation)

Parent

Vacatina

Original name

Anthemiphylliidae Vaughan, 1907

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Genus Anthemiphyllia Pourtalès, 1878

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Vaughan TW. (1907). Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. US National Museum Bulletin. 59 (9): 1-427., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10230 [details]

Descriptive notes

Description Solitary, free-living, button-like and ahermatypic; septa have well-developed teeth, other skeletal elements reduced or...

Description Solitary, free-living, button-like and ahermatypic; septa have well-developed teeth, other skeletal elements reduced or absent.
Related families: None. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Anthemiphylliidae Vaughan, 1907. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196097 on 2026-08-01

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Anthemiphylliidae Vaughan, 1907. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196097 on 2026-08-01

Taxonomic edit history

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2005-12-27 19:49:34Z

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Vanden Berghe, Edward

2009-08-12 11:48:18Z

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2010-12-04 01:41:22Z

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Cairns, Stephen

2020-01-16 17:16:55Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-22 16:03:29Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2023-12-09 16:57:16Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2025-09-27 17:05:05Z

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original description Vaughan TW. (1907). Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. US National Museum Bulletin. 59 (9): 1-427., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10230 [details]

identification resource Cairns, S.D. & M. Kitahara. (2012). An illustrated key to the genera and subgenera of the Recent azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria, Anthozoa), with an attached glossary. ZooKeys. 227: 1-47., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.227.3612 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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Biology azooxanthellate

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Description Solitary, free-living, button-like and ahermatypic; septa have well-developed teeth, other skeletal elements reduced or absent.
Related families: None. (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]

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