Scleractinia name details
Brevismilia Bölsche, 1866 †
1581553 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1581553)
uncertain > nomen dubium
Genus
Anthophyllum conicum Roemer, 1836 † accepted as Brevismilia conica (Roemer, 1836) † (type by monotypy)
- Species Brevismilia conica (Roemer, 1836) † (uncertain > nomen dubium)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Bölsche W. (1866). Die Korallen des norddeutschen Jura- und Kreide-Gebirges. <em>Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 18(3): 439-486, pls. 7-9. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Brevismilia Bölsche, 1866 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1581553 on 2026-05-31
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original description
Bölsche W. (1866). Die Korallen des norddeutschen Jura- und Kreide-Gebirges. <em>Zeitschrift der Deutschen Geologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 18(3): 439-486, pls. 7-9. [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
Remark The original documentation of the genus Brevismilia by Boelsche (1866, p. 469) is insufficient in that it remains unclear how this taxon differs from genera like e.g. Smilotrochus or Desmophyllum. In addition, based on the very small size of the corallum (about 1 mm in height and a little over 2 mm in diameter), it cannot be ruled out that the type specimen represents a fragment of a branching-colonial form like Cladocora, Liptodendron, or Calamophylliopsis, especially since the author of Brevismilia himself included the branching (phaceloid-dendroid) form Cladophyllia nana Milne Edwards and Haime in the synonymy of his newly created genus. [details]