Scleractinia taxon details
Placosmilia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †
1289786 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1289786)
accepted
Genus
Fhragmosgyra Reig Oriol, 1994 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Firia de Gregorio, 1894 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Placosmiliopsis M. Beauvais, 1982 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Placosmilia arcuata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †
- Species Placosmilia bipartita Felix, 1913 †
- Species Placosmilia caeliformis Gregory, 1900 †
- Species Placosmilia columbella Oppenheim, 1930 †
- Species Placosmilia copoyensis Frost & Langenheim, 1974 †
- Species Placosmilia corallina de Fromentel, 1861 †
- Species Placosmilia cymbula (Michelin, 1846) †
- Species Placosmilia decora Oppenheim, 1930 †
- Species Placosmilia elongata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †
- Species Placosmilia europhila Felix, 1903 †
- Species Placosmilia kachensis Gregory, 1900 †
- Species Placosmilia limburgica de Gruyter, 1944 †
- Species Placosmilia magnifica Duncan, 1870 †
- Species Placosmilia montepostalensis (de Gregorio, 1894) †
- Species Placosmilia nysti (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) †
- Species Placosmilia panovani Gerth, 1921 †
- Species Placosmilia parkinsonii Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †
- Species Placosmilia recta Alloiteau, 1948 †
- Species Placosmilia robusta Umbgrove, 1925 †
- Species Placosmilia rudis (Sowerby, 1832) †
- Species Placosmilia scalpriformis Gregory, 1900 †
- Species Placosmilia torallolensis (Reig Oriol, 1994) †
- Species Placosmilia urgoniensis Koby, 1896 †
- Species Placosmilia bravoensis Böse, 1910 † (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Placosmilia mexicana Böse, 1910 † (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Placosmilia sessilis Milaschewitsch, 1876 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Subgenus Placosmilia (Trochosmilia) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 † accepted as Trochosmilia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Placosmilia (Trochosmilia) connivens de Gregorio, 1890 † accepted as Trochosmilia connivens (de Gregorio, 1890) † (basionym, changed combination)
- Species Placosmilia angusta Reuss, 1854 † accepted as Nefophyllia angusta (Reuss, 1854) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
- Species Placosmilia carusensis d'Orbigny, 1850 † (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Species Placosmilia consobrina Reuss, 1854 † accepted as Placosmilia rudis (Sowerby, 1832) † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Placosmilia cuneiformis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 † accepted as Aulosmilia cuneiformis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) † (basionym, new combination)
- Species Placosmilia rudis (Michelin, 1841) † accepted as Placosmilia parkinsonii Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Observations sur les Polypiers de la famille des Astréides. <em>Comptes Rendus de l'Académie Des Sciences, Paris.</em> 27: 465–470. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Placosmilia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1289786 on 2026-04-30
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Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Observations sur les Polypiers de la famille des Astréides. <em>Comptes Rendus de l'Académie Des Sciences, Paris.</em> 27: 465–470. [details]
original description (of Firia de Gregorio, 1894 †) Gregorio, A. de. (1894). Monographie des fossiles Éocéniques (Étage Parissien) de Monte Postale. <em>Annales de Géologie et de Paléontologie.</em> 14: 1-55, pls. 1-9. [details]
original description (of Placosmiliopsis M. Beauvais, 1982 †) Beauvais M. (1982). Révision systématique des madréporaires des Couches de Gosau (Crétacé supérieur, Autriche), Sous-ordres Archaeocoeniina, Stylinina, Astraeoina, Meandriina,Caryophilliina: 1-256; 2, Sous-ordre Fungiina: 1-277; 3,Sous-ordre Heterocoeniina, sous-classe Octocorallia, classeHydrozoa: 1-177; 4, Atlas photographies: 11-71, pls., 1- 71;5, Atlas figures (not paginated). Travaux du Laboratoire depaléontologie des invertébrés. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. <em>Travaux du Laboratoire de Paléontologie des Invertébrés.</em> 2: 1-278. [details]
original description (of Fhragmosgyra Reig Oriol, 1994 †) Reig Oriol JM. (1994). Madreporarios Cretácicos de Cataluña. <em>. Privately published, Barcelona.</em> 60 pp. [details]
additional source Gregory JW. (1900). The Jurassic fauna of Cutch. The corals. <em>Palaeontologica Indica, Ser 9.</em> 2 (2): 1-195, pls. 2-27. [details]
additional source Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details]
additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]
additional source Oppenheim P. (1930). Die Anthozoen der Gosauschichten in der Ostalpen. <em>Oppenheim, Berlin-Lichterfelde.</em> i-xviii, 1-576. [details]
additional source Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. <em>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.</em> pp 462. [details]
additional source Leloux J. (2004). Notes on taxonomy and taphonomy of two Upper Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) scleractinian corals from Limburg, The Netherlands. <em>Scripta Geologica.</em> 127: 313-339. [details]
original description (of Firia de Gregorio, 1894 †) Gregorio, A. de. (1894). Monographie des fossiles Éocéniques (Étage Parissien) de Monte Postale. <em>Annales de Géologie et de Paléontologie.</em> 14: 1-55, pls. 1-9. [details]
original description (of Placosmiliopsis M. Beauvais, 1982 †) Beauvais M. (1982). Révision systématique des madréporaires des Couches de Gosau (Crétacé supérieur, Autriche), Sous-ordres Archaeocoeniina, Stylinina, Astraeoina, Meandriina,Caryophilliina: 1-256; 2, Sous-ordre Fungiina: 1-277; 3,Sous-ordre Heterocoeniina, sous-classe Octocorallia, classeHydrozoa: 1-177; 4, Atlas photographies: 11-71, pls., 1- 71;5, Atlas figures (not paginated). Travaux du Laboratoire depaléontologie des invertébrés. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris. <em>Travaux du Laboratoire de Paléontologie des Invertébrés.</em> 2: 1-278. [details]
original description (of Fhragmosgyra Reig Oriol, 1994 †) Reig Oriol JM. (1994). Madreporarios Cretácicos de Cataluña. <em>. Privately published, Barcelona.</em> 60 pp. [details]
additional source Gregory JW. (1900). The Jurassic fauna of Cutch. The corals. <em>Palaeontologica Indica, Ser 9.</em> 2 (2): 1-195, pls. 2-27. [details]
additional source Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details]
additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]
additional source Oppenheim P. (1930). Die Anthozoen der Gosauschichten in der Ostalpen. <em>Oppenheim, Berlin-Lichterfelde.</em> i-xviii, 1-576. [details]
additional source Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. <em>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.</em> pp 462. [details]
additional source Leloux J. (2004). Notes on taxonomy and taphonomy of two Upper Maastrichtian (Upper Cretaceous) scleractinian corals from Limburg, The Netherlands. <em>Scripta Geologica.</em> 127: 313-339. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Colonial. Younger specimens flabellate, becoming meandroid in later ontogenetical stages. Gemmation intracalicinal, resulting in a single meandroid calicinal series. Costosepta compact, arranged bilaterally. Septal margins granular. Endothecal dissepiments well-developed, occurring throughout the whole corallum. Columella lamellar, generally continuous. Wall parathecal to septoparathecal. Multilamellar epithecal wall can be present. [details]
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