Chinese Register of Marine Species - Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

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Register of
Marine Species
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ChaRMS taxon details

Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Lateral view of holotype

AphiaID

503252 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:503252)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Subgenus

Type taxon

Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) grayi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Caryophyllia Lamarck, 1801

Original name

Acanthocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Direct children (3)

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Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of ) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3. 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2025) Chinese Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=503252 on 2026-08-12

Regional species database citation

Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=503252 on 2026-08-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-15 20:46:26Z

created

Cairns, Stephen

2010-09-13 23:22:01Z

changed

Cairns, Stephen

2019-10-13 11:37:40Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-06-04 11:51:25Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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original description (of ) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 2. Monographie des turbinolides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3. 9: 211-344, pls. 7-10. [details]

basis of record Cairns, S.D. (2009-2017). On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [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]

additional source Kitahara, M.V., S.D. Cairns & D.J. Miller. (2010). Monophyletic origin of Caryophyllia (Scleractinia, Caryophylliidae), with descriptions of six new species. Systematics and Biodiversity. 8(1): 91-118., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000903571088 [details] Available for editors