Scleractinia taxon details
Platysmilia Toula, 1889 (ex de Fromentel, 1873) †
1581292 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1581292)
accepted
Genus
Platysmilia kozirogensis Toula, 1889 † (type by subsequent designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Not documented
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Platysmilia Toula, 1889 (ex de Fromentel, 1873) †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1581292 on 2024-09-16
basis of record
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Remark De Fromentel (1873, p. 418) only mentioned the name Platysmilia in a diagram that compares several genera of various groups (e.g., stylosmiliid, caryophyllid, amphiastreid, heterocoeniid). He did not provide any description or diagnosis of this taxon. According to this diagram, Platysmilia is supposed to be closely related to Dendrosmilia but differs from it in having a (short-stylosmiliid) lamellar columella. However, because he combined genera in this diagram that have subsequently been placed in different families and even different suborders, its taxonomic position was not specified. The first species assigned to this genus was Platysmilia kozirogensis Toula (1889, p. 83), representing the first revision of Platysmilia. In applying Platysmilia to a taxon and attributing it to de Fromentel in the associated description, the name Platysmilia Toula, 1889, became available [ICZN article 11.5]. According to Toula, this form represents a stylosmiliid taxon, which is characterized by a: ramose colony around which there spiral plocoid corallites; corallites are circular in outline; columella which seems to be stylosmiliid in appearance but can also be in the shape of a lamellar segment ("blattformig"); corallite walls thick, consisting of synapticulae and costae, the latter of which connect the polyps with each other. However, the original description and illustration of Toula's material is insufficient in that it remains unclear how this taxon differs from genera like e.g. Stylosmilia, Cladophyllia, Pleurocora, and even Rhizangia. Attempts to track down the type material between 2009 and 2013 in the collections of the Natural History Museum Vienna, which holds parts of the Toula-collections, were unsuccessful. Therefore, Platysmilia is unrecognizable. [details]