Scleractinia name details

Leptaxis Reus, 1868 †

Holotype of Leptaxis elliptica Reuss
Holotype of Leptaxis elliptica Reuss

1510342 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1510342)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Vacatina (Suborder)
  8. Faviidae (Family)
  9. Leptaxis † (Genus)
 unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
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  1. Species Leptaxis elliptica Reuss, 1868 † accepted as Cricocyathus elliptica (Reuss, 1868) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  2. Species Leptaxis expansa Felix, 1885 † accepted as Cricocyathus expansa (Felix, 1885) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Reuss, A. E. (1868). Paläontologische Studien über die älteren Tertiärschichten der Alpen. I. Die fossilen Anthozoen der Schichte von Castelgomberto. <em>Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien.</em> 28: 129-184, pls. 1-16., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7214847 [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Leptaxis Reus, 1868 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1510342 on 2026-09-26
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original description Reuss, A. E. (1868). Paläontologische Studien über die älteren Tertiärschichten der Alpen. I. Die fossilen Anthozoen der Schichte von Castelgomberto. <em>Denkschriften der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien.</em> 28: 129-184, pls. 1-16., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7214847 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Leptaxis) 
From editor or global species database

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