WoRMS taxon details
Tropidocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
267928 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267928)
accepted
Genus
Flabellum lessonii Michelin, 1842 accepted as Tropidocyathus lessonii (Michelin, 1842) (type by monotypy)
Trochocyathus (Tropidocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 · unaccepted > superseded combination
- Species Tropidocyathus labidus Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997
- Species Tropidocyathus lessonii (Michelin, 1842)
- Species Tropidocyathus bouganvillei Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 accepted as Cyathotrochus pileus (Alcock, 1902) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Tropidocyathus cooperi Gardiner, 1905 accepted as Trochocyathus (Trochocyathus) cooperi (Gardiner, 1905) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
- Species Tropidocyathus herdmani (Bourne, 1905) accepted as Cyathotrochus pileus (Alcock, 1902) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Tropidocyathus intermedius Yabe & Eguchi, 1932 accepted as Cyathotrochus pileus (Alcock, 1902) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Tropidocyathus lessoni (Michelin, 1842) accepted as Tropidocyathus lessonii (Michelin, 1842) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
- Species Tropidocyathus longiseptum Latypov, 2017 accepted as Endopachys grayi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Tropidocyathus nascornatus Gardiner & Waugh, 1938 accepted as Cyathotrochus nascornatus (Gardiner & Waugh, 1938) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
- Species Tropidocyathus pileus (Alcock, 1902) accepted as Cyathotrochus pileus (Alcock, 1902) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Tropidocyathus wellsi (Yabe & Eguchi, 1942) accepted as Tropidocyathus lessonii (Michelin, 1842) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Trochocyathus (Tropidocyathus) 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 50-536 m
Fossil range Late Cretaceous to Recent
Depth range 50-536 m [details]
Fossil range Late Cretaceous to Recent
Fossil range Late Cretaceous to Recent [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Tropidocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267928 on 2025-03-28
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Trochocyathus (Tropidocyathus) 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 van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
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]
Taxonomy
redescription
Cairns, S.D. (1995). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Memoir.</em> 103: 1-210. [details] Available for editors 
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redescription Cairns, S.D. (1989). A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 486: 1-136. [details] Available for editors [request]
redescription Cairns, S.D. (1997). A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Turbinoliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 591: 1-55. [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]redescription Cairns, S.D. (1989). A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 486: 1-136. [details] Available for editors
[request]redescription Cairns, S.D. (1997). A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Turbinoliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 591: 1-55. [details] Available for editors
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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): 135 [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 Filkorn HF. (1994). Fossil Scleractinian Corals from James Ross Basin, Antarctica. <em>Antarctic Research Series.</em> 65: 1-96., available online at https://doi.org/10.1029/ar065 [details]
page(s): 135 [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 Filkorn HF. (1994). Fossil Scleractinian Corals from James Ross Basin, Antarctica. <em>Antarctic Research Series.</em> 65: 1-96., available online at https://doi.org/10.1029/ar065 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Comparison Differs from Cyathotrochus in having granular, trifurcating costae and alate edge costae. [details]Diagnosis Corallum cuneiform, with a rounded base and prominent granular, alate edge crests; GCD up to 16 mm; theca imperforate; costae granular, higher cycle costae originating by trifurcation; septa hexamerally arranged in 4 cycles; P1-3 prominent in 3 crowns; columella papillose. [details]
Remark This genus and family was monographed by Cairns (1997), which included a phylogenetic analysis based on morphology. Four species are placed in this genus (Cairns, 1997; Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997), the two late Cretaceous species (Filkorn, 1994) being tentative. [details]
Unreviewed
Biology azooxanthellate [details]Depth range 50-536 m [details]
Fossil range Late Cretaceous to Recent [details]
