Scleractinia name details

Desmophyllum tenuescens Gardiner, 1899

509300  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:509300)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Vacatina (Suborder)
  8. Caryophylliidae (Family)
  9. Desmophyllum (Genus)
  10. Desmophyllum tenuescens (Species)
 unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Gardiner JS (1899) On the solitary corals, collected by Dr. A. Willey. In: A. Willey's Zoological Results, Zoological Results based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and Elsewhere, Cambridge 2: 161-170, 176-180, pls. 19-20. [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Desmophyllum tenuescens Gardiner, 1899. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=509300 on 2026-05-05
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2010-08-21 12:24:10Z
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Cairns, Stephen
2020-05-18 15:27:30Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2021-02-26 17:38:46Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2022-06-20 08:45:58Z
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Hoeksema, Bert

original description Gardiner JS (1899) On the solitary corals, collected by Dr. A. Willey. In: A. Willey's Zoological Results, Zoological Results based on Material from New Britain, New Guinea, Loyalty Islands and Elsewhere, Cambridge 2: 161-170, 176-180, pls. 19-20. [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] OpenAccess publication

additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em>
page(s): 608 [details] 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (20 records) 
To ITIS

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