original description
Milne Edwards, H., Haime, J. (1849). Mémoire sur les Polypiers appartenant aux groupes naturels des Zoanthaires perforés et des Zoanthaires tabulés. <em>Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des sciences.</em> 29: 257-263. [details] 
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record
Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
additional source
Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137.
page(s): 134 [details]
additional source
Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source
Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Biology azooxanthellate [details]
Depth range 12-366 m [details]
Diagnosis Colonial corallum arborescent (bushy), formed by regular, alternate extracalicular budding (sympodial); coenosteum dense and faintly costate; pali occur before first three cycles of septa; columella papillose [details]
Remark Monotypic [details]Unreviewed
Description Genus of non-reef building scleractinians; Indo-Pacific. Colonial, attached and branching. Has alternate budding of corallites with no axial corallites (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
From editor or global species database
Cyathelia axillaris, colony
Cyathelia axillaris, calicular view
Cyathelia axillaris, calicular view