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WoRMS taxon detailsCaryophyllia Lamarck, 1801
 135085 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135085)
accepted
Genus
Madrepora cyathus Ellis & Solander, 1786 accepted as Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) cyathus (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (type by subsequent designation)
Amblocyathus d'Orbigny, 1849 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Anthophyllea Link, 1807 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Anthophyllum Schweigger, 1819 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Anthrophyllum Schweigger, 1819 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (misspelling)
Caryophyllia (Ceratocyathus) Seguenza, 1861 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Ceratocyathus Seguenza, 1861 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cyathina Ehrenberg, 1834 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cylindrocyathus Alloiteau, 1952 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Paterocyathus Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Plesiocaryophyllia Alloiteau, 1958 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Turbinolia (Cyathina) Ehrenberg, 1834 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine,
recent + fossil
Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. <em>Published by the author and Deterville, Paris.</em> : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 [details]
Depth range 0-2670 m
Depth range 0-2670 m [details] Fossil range Upper Jurassic to Recent
Fossil range Upper Jurassic to Recent [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Caryophyllia Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135085 on 2025-07-17
Date action by 2006-09-07 06:51:43Z changed Martinez, Olga
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. <em>Published by the author and Deterville, Paris.</em> : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 [details] original description (of Cyathina Ehrenberg, 1834) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862 [details] original description (of Ceratocyathus Seguenza, 1861) Seguenza, G. (1863-1864). Disquisizioni paleontologiche intorno ai corallarii fossili delle rocce Terziarie del distretto di Messina. <em>Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Serie II.</em> 21: 399-458, ples 1-5 [1863], 459-560, pls. 6-15 [1864]., available online at http://archive.org/details/mobot32044093290419 [details] original description (of Anthophyllum Schweigger, 1819) Schweigger AF. (1819). Beobachtungen auf naturhistorischen Reisen : anatomisch-physiologische Untersuchungen über Corallen ; nebst einem Anhange, Bemerkungen über den Bernstein enthaltend / von August Friedrich Schweigger. <em>Berlin.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50571414 [details] original description (of Amblocyathus d'Orbigny, 1849 †) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1849). Note sur des Polypiers fossiles. <em>Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 2e sér.</em> 1: 526-538. [details] original description (of Cylindrocyathus Alloiteau, 1952 †) Alloiteau J. (1952). Embranchement des Coelentérés. Madreporaires Post-Paleozoiques. <em>In: Piveteau J, ed. Traité de Paléontologie, Paris: Masson.</em> 539–684, pls. 1-10. [details] original description (of Plesiocaryophyllia Alloiteau, 1958 †) Alloiteau J. (1958). Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar. <em>Annales Géologiques de Madagascar.</em> 25: 1-218, pls 1-38. [details] original description (of Anthophyllea Link, 1807 †) Link, D. H. F. (1806-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben. 1, pp. 1-50 [1806]; 2, pp. 51-100 [1807]; 3, pp. 101-165 [1807]; 4, pp. 1-30 [1807]; 5, pp. 1-38 [1808]; 6, pp. 1-38 [1808]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43301237 [details] original description (of Paterocyathus Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 †) Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1860). Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, séries 2.</em> 19: 279-365, pls 1-10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12140332 [details] basis of record Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details] Taxonomyredescription
Cairns, S.D. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. <em>Studies on the Natural History of the Caribbean Region.</em> 75: 1-231. [details] Available for editors  [request]redescription 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 [request]redescription Cairns, S.D. (1994). Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 557: 1-150. [details] Available for editors [request]Otheradditional source
Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details] additional source Pourtalès, L. F.; De. (1878). Corals. In: Report on the Dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the United States Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieutenant-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., commanding. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College.</em> 5(9): 197-212, pl. 1., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30295850 page(s): 199 [details] additional source Daly, M.M., Fautin D.G., Cappola V.A., 2003. Systematics of the Hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 3: 419-437. page(s): 424-425, 427-428 [details] Available for editors [request]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): 134-135 [details] additional source Amaral, F. D.; Hudson, M. M.; da Silveira, F. L.; Migotto, A. E.; Pinto, S. M.; Longo, L. (2002). Cnidarians of Saint Peter and St. Paul Archipelago, Northeast Brazil. <em>Proceedings of the Ninth International Coral Reef Symposium.</em> 1, 567-571. page(s): 567 [details] additional source Stutchbury, S. 1833. An account of the mode of growth of young corals of the genus Fungia. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 16: 493-497, pl. 32. page(s): 495, 497 [details] additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors [request]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 Sieg, J.; Zibrowius, H. (1988). Association of the tube inhabiting tanaidacean, <i>Bifida scleractinicola</i> gen. nov., sp. nov., with bathyal scleractinians off New Caledonia (Crustacea Tanaidacea - Cnidaria Scleractinia). <em>Mésogée.</em> 48: 189-199. page(s): 190, 192 Fig. 1 a-f [details] additional source Wells JW (1964) Ahermatypic corals from Queensland. University of Queensland Papers, Department of Zoology 2: 107-121, pls. 1-3. page(s): 109 [details] additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details] additional source Chevalier J-P. (1961). Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale. <em>Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France, Nouvelle Série.</em> 40(93): 1-562, pls. 1-26. [details] additional source Vaughan TW. (1906). A new species of Coenocyathus from California and the Brazilian astrangid corals. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 30 (1477): 847-850, pls. 77-78., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00963801.30-1477.847 page(s): 847 [details] additional source Squires DF. (1961). Deep sea corals collected by the Lamont Geological Observatory. 2. Scotia Sea corals. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 2046: 1-48. page(s): 23 [details] additional source Zibrowius, H. (1974). Scleractiniares des Iles Saint Paul et Amsterdam (sud de L'Ocean Indien). Tethys, 5(4): 747-778 page(s): 747, 755-756, Pl. 1, fig. 11 [details] additional source Murray, J.; Tizard, T. H. (1882). Exploration of the Faroe Channel, during the summer of 1880, in H.M.'s hired ship "Knight Errant". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 11, 638-677 page(s): 675 [details] additional source Försterra, G.; Häussermann, V. (2003). First report on large scleractinian (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) accumulations in cold-temperate shallow water of south Chilean fjords. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 345, 117-128 page(s): 117, 119-121, Figures 2-3 [details] additional source Marenzeller, E. V. (1904). Stein- und Hydro-Korallen. XXXIII Reports on the dredging operations ? by the U. S. Fish Commission Steamer "Albatross". Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology (Harvard University), 43(2): 75-87 page(s): 80 [details] additional source Schröder-Ritzrau, A.; Freiwald, A.; Mangini, A. (2005). U/Th-dating of deep-water corals from the eastern North Atlantic and the western Mediterranean Sea. André Freiwald and J. Murray Roberts (eds.). Springer. Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 157-172 page(s): 160 [details] additional source Cecchini, C. (1917). Gli Alcionari e i Madreporari roccolti nel Mediterraneo dalla R. N. Archivio Zoologico Italiano, IX(1): 10 page(s): 125, 127, 141-142 [details] additional source Wilson, J. B. (1979). 'Patch' development of the deep-water coral Lophelia pertusa (L.) on Rockall Bank. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 59, 165-177 page(s): 174 [details] additional source Moore, D. R.; Bullis, H. R. (1960). A deep-water coral reef in the Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science of the Gulf and Caribbean, 10(1): 125-128 page(s): 126 [details] additional source Smith FGW. (1954). Gulf of Mexico Madreporaria. <em>Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.).</em> 55, 291-295. page(s): 294 [details] additional source Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113 page(s): 63, 102, 113 [details] additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request] Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Nontype MNHN IC.2009-0087, geounit New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR 9061, geounit French Polynesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
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Diagnosis Corallum solitary, subcylindrical to turbinate, fixed or free; septotheca usually strongly costate, sometimes transversely ridged; pali in one crown opposite penultimate septal cycle (usually S3), occasionally antepenultimate septal cycle; columella fascicular; no endotheca. [details]Remark Dozens of fossil species and 58 Recent species (see Cairns, 1991; Cairns et al., 1999; Baron-Szabo, 2002) [details] Unreviewed
Biology azooxanthellate [details]Depth range 0-2670 m [details] Fossil range Upper Jurassic to Recent [details] Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details] From editor or global species database
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