African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Rhizosmilia Cairns, 1978

Rhizosmilia gerdae Cairns, 1978, holotypic colony

AphiaID

267805 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267805)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846

Original name

Rhizosmilia Cairns, 1978

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Species Rhizosmilia valida (Marenzeller, 1907)

Environment

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

Original description

Cairns, S.D. (1978). New genus and species of ahermatypic coral (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) from the western Atlantic. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 9l(l): 216-221, 1(1), text-fig. [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Rhizosmilia Cairns, 1978. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267805 on 2026-08-14

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Rhizosmilia Cairns, 1978. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267805 on 2026-08-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-14 11:18:07Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2010-08-21 12:24:10Z

changed

Cairns, Stephen

2010-09-09 20:29:02Z

changed

Cairns, Stephen

2019-10-12 20:22:42Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-06-24 11:12:51Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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original description Cairns, S.D. (1978). New genus and species of ahermatypic coral (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) from the western Atlantic. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 9l(l): 216-221, 1(1), text-fig. [details] Available for editors

basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [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]

redescription Cairns, S.D. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Studies on the Natural History of the Caribbean Region. 75: 1-231. [details] Available for editors

redescription Cairns, S.D. (1995). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa. New Zealand Oceanographic Memoir. 103: 1-210. [details] Available for editors