Scleractinia taxon details
Synhelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 †
1417266 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1417266)
accepted
Genus
Lithodendron gibbosum Goldfuss, 1829 † accepted as Synhelia gibbosa (Goldfuss, 1829) † (type by original designation)
- Species Synhelia felixi Koby, 1904 †
- Species Synhelia gibbosa (Goldfuss, 1829) †
- Species Synhelia meyeri (Koch & Dunker, 1837) †
- Species Synhelia sharpeana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850 †
- Species Synhelia reptans Počta, 1887 † accepted as Latohelia reptans (Počta, 1887) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Milne Edwards, H., Haime, J. (1849). Mémoire sur les Polypiers appartenant aux groupes naturels des Zoanthaires perforés et des Zoanthaires tabulés. <em>Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des sciences.</em> 29: 257-263. [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Synhelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1417266 on 2026-09-19
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Milne Edwards, H., Haime, J. (1849). Mémoire sur les Polypiers appartenant aux groupes naturels des Zoanthaires perforés et des Zoanthaires tabulés. <em>Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des sciences.</em> 29: 257-263. [details]
additional source Baron-Szabo RC. (2017). Scleractinian corals from the upper Aptian–Albian of the Garschella Formation of central Europe (western Austria; eastern Switzerland): The Albian. <em>Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt.</em> 157 (1-4): 241-260. [details]
additional source Beauvais L. (1970). Sur quelques genres nouveaux ou peu connus de Madréporaires jurassiques. <em>Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae.</em> 63 (3): 1109-1131, pls. 1-4. [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 Haime, J.; Milne Edwards, H. In: Milne Edwards, H. (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 Baron-Szabo RC. (2017). Scleractinian corals from the upper Aptian–Albian of the Garschella Formation of central Europe (western Austria; eastern Switzerland): The Albian. <em>Jahrbuch der Geologischen Bundesanstalt.</em> 157 (1-4): 241-260. [details]
additional source Beauvais L. (1970). Sur quelques genres nouveaux ou peu connus de Madréporaires jurassiques. <em>Eclogae geologicae Helvetiae.</em> 63 (3): 1109-1131, pls. 1-4. [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 Haime, J.; Milne Edwards, H. In: Milne Edwards, H. (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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Colonial, dendroid. Gemmation extracalicinal. Corallites circular or elliptical, slightly projecting. Peritheca granulated on the upper surface. Costosepta compact, confluent or subconfluent. Columella styliform, slightly compressed. Endothecal dissepiments thin, sparse. Synapticulae present. Wall parasynapticulothecal. [details]
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