WoRMS name details
Caryophyllia compressa Gardiner & Waugh, 1938
1449267 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1449267)
unaccepted > junior homonym
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Gardiner JS, Waugh P. (1938). The flabellid and turbinolid corals. <em>Scientific reports of the John Murray Expedition, 1933-34, British Museum (Natural History). London.</em> 5 (7): 167-202. [details]
Homonymy Junior homonym of Caryophyllia compressa (Lamarck, 1816)
Homonymy Junior homonym of Caryophyllia compressa (Lamarck, 1816) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Caryophyllia compressa Gardiner & Waugh, 1938. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1449267 on 2026-04-14
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Nomenclature
original description
Gardiner JS, Waugh P. (1938). The flabellid and turbinolid corals. <em>Scientific reports of the John Murray Expedition, 1933-34, British Museum (Natural History). London.</em> 5 (7): 167-202. [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Cairns, S.D. (1994). Scleractinia of the temperate North Pacific. <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 557: 1-150., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.557.i [details] Available for editors 
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Homonymy Junior homonym of Caryophyllia compressa (Lamarck, 1816) [details]
