Scleractinia name details
Desmophyllum riisei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
1486207 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1486207)
unaccepted > superseded combination (amended spelling)
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Desmophyllum rusei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1860). Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, séries 2.</em> 19: 279-365, pls 1-10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12140332 [details] 
Holotype MSNM, verbatimGeounit Recent: St. Thomas, ...
, Note Recent: St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
Holotype MSNM, verbatimGeounit Recent: St. Thomas, ... [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Recent: St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. [details]
Nomenclature The wrong spelling "riisei" may have been cause by the type setter reading "ii" instead of "u" in D. rusei.
Nomenclature The wrong spelling "riisei" may have been cause by the type setter reading "ii" instead of "u" in D. rusei. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Desmophyllum riisei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1486207 on 2026-05-12
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(of Desmophyllum rusei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1860). Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, séries 2.</em> 19: 279-365, pls 1-10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12140332 [details]
replacement name source Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1864). Supplément au mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Memorie della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino, Serie 2.</em> 23: 97-206, plates 1-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31197612 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1864). Supplément au mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Memorie della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino, Serie 2.</em> 23: 97-206, plates 1-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31197612 [details]
additional source Bayer, F. M.; Grasshoff, M. (1997). Case 2940. Riisea and riisei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 (Cnidaria, Anthozoa): proposed conservation as the correct original spellings of generic and specific names based on the surname Riise. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 54(1): 11-13., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.55
page(s): 11, 12 [details] Available for editors
additional source Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P. (1870). Revue des Zoophytes et des Spongiaires des Antilles. <em>Masson, Paris.</em> 1-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.69814 [details]
additional source Pourtalès, L.F. (1880). Report on the corals and Antipatharia. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Caribbean Sea, 1878-79, by the United States coast survey steamer "Blake", commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. VI. <em>.Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 6(4): 95-120, pls. 1-3.
page(s): 96, 106, 119, Pl. I [details]
additional source Vaughan TW. (1907). Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. <em>US National Museum Bulletin.</em> 59 (9): 1-427., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10230
page(s): 68, 418, 426 [details]
status source Bayer, F. M.; Grasshoff, M. (1997). Case 2940. Riisea and riisei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 (Cnidaria, Anthozoa): proposed conservation as the correct original spellings of generic and specific names based on the surname Riise. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 54(1): 11-13., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.55 [details] Available for editors
status source ICZN. (1998). OPINION 1895. Riisea and riisei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 (Cnidaria, Anthozoa): conserved as the correct original spellings of generic and speciñc names based on the surname Riise. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 52 (2): 121-122. [details]
replacement name source Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1864). Supplément au mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Memorie della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino, Serie 2.</em> 23: 97-206, plates 1-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31197612 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1864). Supplément au mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Memorie della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino, Serie 2.</em> 23: 97-206, plates 1-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31197612 [details]
additional source Bayer, F. M.; Grasshoff, M. (1997). Case 2940. Riisea and riisei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 (Cnidaria, Anthozoa): proposed conservation as the correct original spellings of generic and specific names based on the surname Riise. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 54(1): 11-13., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.55
page(s): 11, 12 [details] Available for editors
additional source Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P. (1870). Revue des Zoophytes et des Spongiaires des Antilles. <em>Masson, Paris.</em> 1-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.69814 [details]
additional source Pourtalès, L.F. (1880). Report on the corals and Antipatharia. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Caribbean Sea, 1878-79, by the United States coast survey steamer "Blake", commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. VI. <em>.Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 6(4): 95-120, pls. 1-3.
page(s): 96, 106, 119, Pl. I [details]
additional source Vaughan TW. (1907). Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. <em>US National Museum Bulletin.</em> 59 (9): 1-427., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10230
page(s): 68, 418, 426 [details]
status source Bayer, F. M.; Grasshoff, M. (1997). Case 2940. Riisea and riisei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 (Cnidaria, Anthozoa): proposed conservation as the correct original spellings of generic and specific names based on the surname Riise. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 54(1): 11-13., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.55 [details] Available for editors
status source ICZN. (1998). OPINION 1895. Riisea and riisei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860 (Cnidaria, Anthozoa): conserved as the correct original spellings of generic and speciñc names based on the surname Riise. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 52 (2): 121-122. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype MSNM, verbatimGeounit Recent: St. Thomas, ... [details]