Scleractinia name details
Desmophyllum rusei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
509299 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:509299)
unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
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] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Desmophyllum rusei Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=509299 on 2026-05-05
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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]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D. (2009-2017). On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. <em>In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats.</em> Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [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]
additional source Volpi, C., Benvenuti D., 2003. The Duchassaing & Michelotti collection of Caribbean corals: status of the types and location of the specimens. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 144 1: 51-74.
page(s): 60 [details]
additional source Rossi, L. (1959). Catalogo dei tipi di Madreporarii esistenti nel Museo Zoologico di Torino. Bollettino delli'Istituto e Museo di Zoologia dell'Universitá di Torino, 6(3): 3-11
page(s): 10 [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]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D. (2009-2017). On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. <em>In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats.</em> Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [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]
additional source Volpi, C., Benvenuti D., 2003. The Duchassaing & Michelotti collection of Caribbean corals: status of the types and location of the specimens. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 144 1: 51-74.
page(s): 60 [details]
additional source Rossi, L. (1959). Catalogo dei tipi di Madreporarii esistenti nel Museo Zoologico di Torino. Bollettino delli'Istituto e Museo di Zoologia dell'Universitá di Torino, 6(3): 3-11
page(s): 10 [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
Unknown type MRSN [details]