Scleractinia taxon details
Cheilosmilia Koby, 1888 †
1440281 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1440281)
accepted
Genus
Cheilosmilia microstoma Koby, 1888 † (type by monotypy)
Lingulosmilia Koby, 1888 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Sclerosmilia Koby, 1888 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Koby F. (1880-1890). Monographie des polypiers jurassiques de la Suisse. <em>Mémoires de la Societé paléontologique Suisse.</em> 7–16: 1–582, pls. 1-130. [details]
Description Solitary or subcolonial, conical to cylindrical corallum. Probable pachytheca and pocket budding producing only rudimentary...
Description Solitary or subcolonial, conical to cylindrical corallum. Probable pachytheca and pocket budding producing only rudimentary daughter corallites. Cutting calicular edge. External surface of the corallum wrinkled. Radial elements are compact lonsdaleoid septa arranged according to a strong bilateral symmetry marked by a cardinal septum. Other septa are subequal and arranged by pairs in bilateral symmetry. Two zonal endotheca with an outer marginarium made of vesicular dissepiments and an inner endotheca made of tabuloid dissepiments. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Cheilosmilia Koby, 1888 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1440281 on 2026-05-04
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Koby F. (1880-1890). Monographie des polypiers jurassiques de la Suisse. <em>Mémoires de la Societé paléontologique Suisse.</em> 7–16: 1–582, pls. 1-130. [details]
original description (of Lingulosmilia Koby, 1888 †) Koby F. (1880-1890). Monographie des polypiers jurassiques de la Suisse. <em>Mémoires de la Societé paléontologique Suisse.</em> 7–16: 1–582, pls. 1-130. [details]
original description (of Sclerosmilia Koby, 1888 †) Koby F. (1880-1890). Monographie des polypiers jurassiques de la Suisse. <em>Mémoires de la Societé paléontologique Suisse.</em> 7–16: 1–582, pls. 1-130. [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]
additional source Eliášová H. (1975). Sous-ordre Amphiastraeina Alloiteau, 1952 (Hexacorallia) des calcaires de Štramberk (Tithonien, Tchécoslovaquie). <em>Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii.</em> 20(1): 1-23, pls. 1-12. [details]
additional source Roniewicz, E. (1976). Les scleractiniaires du Jurassique Superieur de la Dobrogea Centrale, Roumanie. Palaeontologia Polonica, 34: 17-121. [details]
original description (of Lingulosmilia Koby, 1888 †) Koby F. (1880-1890). Monographie des polypiers jurassiques de la Suisse. <em>Mémoires de la Societé paléontologique Suisse.</em> 7–16: 1–582, pls. 1-130. [details]
original description (of Sclerosmilia Koby, 1888 †) Koby F. (1880-1890). Monographie des polypiers jurassiques de la Suisse. <em>Mémoires de la Societé paléontologique Suisse.</em> 7–16: 1–582, pls. 1-130. [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]
additional source Eliášová H. (1975). Sous-ordre Amphiastraeina Alloiteau, 1952 (Hexacorallia) des calcaires de Štramberk (Tithonien, Tchécoslovaquie). <em>Časopis pro mineralogii a geologii.</em> 20(1): 1-23, pls. 1-12. [details]
additional source Roniewicz, E. (1976). Les scleractiniaires du Jurassique Superieur de la Dobrogea Centrale, Roumanie. Palaeontologia Polonica, 34: 17-121. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Comparison Opisthophyllum was synonymized with Cheilosmilia by Beauvais 1963 but this author changed her view in 1976, considering that a marginarium is constant all along the longitudinal section in Cheilosmilia. Additionally Eliášová 1975 remarked that the size of septa and the elongation of the axial zone is also a criterium to distinguish these genera. [details]Description Solitary or subcolonial, conical to cylindrical corallum. Probable pachytheca and pocket budding producing only rudimentary daughter corallites. Cutting calicular edge. External surface of the corallum wrinkled. Radial elements are compact lonsdaleoid septa arranged according to a strong bilateral symmetry marked by a cardinal septum. Other septa are subequal and arranged by pairs in bilateral symmetry. Two zonal endotheca with an outer marginarium made of vesicular dissepiments and an inner endotheca made of tabuloid dissepiments. [details]
Remark With the synonymy of Lingulosmilia and Sclerosmilia, 10 nominal species are counted, probably few are valid. [details]
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