Scleractinia taxon details
Diplaraea Milaschewitsch, 1876 †
1348252 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1348252)
accepted
Genus
Diplaraea arbuscula Milaschewitsch, 1876 † (type by monotypy)
Diplarea Milaschewitsch, 1876 † · unaccepted > unjustified emendation
- Species Diplaraea arbuscula Milaschewitsch, 1876 †
- Species Diplaraea boltonae Wells, 1934 †
- Species Diplaraea sakamotoensis (Eguchi, 1951) †
- Species Diplaraea somaensis (Eguchi, 1951) †
- Species Diplaraea tosaensis Eguchi, 1951 †
- Species Diplaraea elegans (Milaschewitsch, 1876) † accepted as Haplaraea elegans Milaschewitsch, 1876 † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Diplaraea venezuelensis Gregory, 1927 † accepted as Calamophyllia sandbergeri Felix, 1891 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Milaschewitsch C. (1876). Die Korallen der Nattheimer Schichten. Zweite Abteilung. <em>Paleontographica.</em> 21 (7): 182-243, pls. 36-51. [details]
Description Dendroid-phaceloid corallum with few branches with subcylindrical corallites commonly exsert. Epitheca nearly absent, only...
Description Dendroid-phaceloid corallum with few branches with subcylindrical corallites commonly exsert. Epitheca nearly absent, only some thin and scarce rhythmic rings. Costae subequal and coarsely and regularly dentate with round robust teeth. Intracalicinal increase. Radial elements are anastomosed costosepta perforate in the septal part to compact in the costal part, slightly bicuneiform straight to curved. Distal edge with regular teeth, inner edge with detached trabecules, Lateral faces with conical granules that can evolve into synapticulae. No palis. Trabecules arranged in fan system Microstructure unknown. Hexameral symmetry not deciphered, bilateral symmetry potentially marked with curvature of septa elongation of the corallite and of axial zone. Endotheca of vesicular dissepiments sloping down outward…. , Columella spongious to papillose with cylindrical or slightly compressed papillae. Regularly synapticulate. No wall. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Diplaraea Milaschewitsch, 1876 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1348252 on 2026-04-30
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Milaschewitsch C. (1876). Die Korallen der Nattheimer Schichten. Zweite Abteilung. <em>Paleontographica.</em> 21 (7): 182-243, pls. 36-51. [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 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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Comparison Haplaraea and Diplaraea were put in synonymy by Geyer 1954. This is quite understandable. In the situation of these two type-species coming from the same Upper Kimmeridgian localities, the colonial character is the only difference and as we know in several other families of corals we can consider several morphogenera within a single specific biological unit (Lathuilière 1976). Then the nomenclatural solution here chosen is to keep both genera not as phyletic genera but as morphogenera. [details]Description Dendroid-phaceloid corallum with few branches with subcylindrical corallites commonly exsert. Epitheca nearly absent, only some thin and scarce rhythmic rings. Costae subequal and coarsely and regularly dentate with round robust teeth. Intracalicinal increase. Radial elements are anastomosed costosepta perforate in the septal part to compact in the costal part, slightly bicuneiform straight to curved. Distal edge with regular teeth, inner edge with detached trabecules, Lateral faces with conical granules that can evolve into synapticulae. No palis. Trabecules arranged in fan system Microstructure unknown. Hexameral symmetry not deciphered, bilateral symmetry potentially marked with curvature of septa elongation of the corallite and of axial zone. Endotheca of vesicular dissepiments sloping down outward…. , Columella spongious to papillose with cylindrical or slightly compressed papillae. Regularly synapticulate. No wall. [details]
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