Scleractinia taxon details
Thecosmiliopsis Lebanidze, 1991 †
1438168 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1438168)
accepted
Genus
Thecosmiliopsis elegans Lebanidze, 1991 † (type by original designation)
- Species Thecosmiliopsis elegans Lebanidze, 1991 † (uncertain > unassessed)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Lebanidze ZM. (1991). Pozdneyurskiye korally Zapadnoy Gruzii (Abkhaziya) [Upper Jurassic corals of western Georgia (Abkhaziya)]. <em>Trudy Akademiya Nauk Gruzii, Geologicheskiy Institut Imeni A. I. Dzanelidze.</em> 105:1-64. [details]
Status Thecosmiliopsis is an available name considered as a junior synonym, a morphotype included within the variability of...
Status Thecosmiliopsis is an available name considered as a junior synonym, a morphotype included within the variability of Thecosmilia [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Thecosmiliopsis Lebanidze, 1991 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1438168 on 2026-09-26
Date
action
by
original description
Lebanidze ZM. (1991). Pozdneyurskiye korally Zapadnoy Gruzii (Abkhaziya) [Upper Jurassic corals of western Georgia (Abkhaziya)]. <em>Trudy Akademiya Nauk Gruzii, Geologicheskiy Institut Imeni A. I. Dzanelidze.</em> 105:1-64. [details]
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]
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
Diagnosis Phaceloid colony, with densely packed short corallites, rounded calices, compact septa. Parathecal wall. Endotheca made of sinusoidal dissepiments. Intracalicular budding. No columella. (translated from Lebanidze) [details]Remark One nominal species, one citation. [details]
Status Thecosmiliopsis is an available name considered as a junior synonym, a morphotype included within the variability of Thecosmilia [details]