WoRMS name details
Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) elongata Cairns & Keller, 1993
286740 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:286740)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (homonym)
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Caryophyllia elongata Cairns & Keller, 1993) Cairns, S.D. & N.B. Keller. (1993). New taxa and distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 103(5): 213-292, 13 pls. [details] Available for editors 
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Nomenclature Junior homonym of Caryophyllia elongata (Keferstein, 1859) and of Caryophyllia clavus var. elongata Duncan, 1873
Nomenclature Junior homonym of Caryophyllia elongata (Keferstein, 1859) and of Caryophyllia clavus var. elongata Duncan, 1873 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) elongata Cairns & Keller, 1993. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=286740 on 2025-12-21
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Caryophyllia elongata Cairns & Keller, 1993) Cairns, S.D. & N.B. Keller. (1993). New taxa and distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. <em>Annals of the South African Museum.</em> 103(5): 213-292, 13 pls. [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
[request]basis of record Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
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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 [request]
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
