Deep-Sea taxon details
Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
503252 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:503252)
accepted
Subgenus
Acanthocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Acanthocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details]
Depth range 37-750 m
Fossil range Miocene to Recent
Depth range 37-750 m [details]
Fossil range Miocene to Recent
Fossil range Miocene to Recent [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. 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=503252 on 2026-05-08
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=503252 on 2026-05-08
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(of Acanthocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D. (2009-2017). On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. <em>In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats.</em> Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [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 Kitahara, M.V., S.D. Cairns & D.J. Miller. (2010). Monophyletic origin of Caryophyllia (Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae), with descriptions of six new species. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 8(1): 91-118., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000903571088 [details] Available for editors
basis of record Cairns, S.D. (2009-2017). On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. <em>In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats.</em> Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [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 Kitahara, M.V., S.D. Cairns & D.J. Miller. (2010). Monophyletic origin of Caryophyllia (Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae), with descriptions of six new species. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity.</em> 8(1): 91-118., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000903571088 [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Biology azooxanthellate [details]Depth range 37-750 m [details]
Diagnosis Like Caryophyllia, but having thecal edge spines or crests. [details]
Fossil range Miocene to Recent [details]
Remark About a dozen fossil species and 9 Recent species. See Cairns and Zibrowius (1997) for a revision of the Recent species. [details]
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