Scleractinia name details
Desmophyllum nobile Verrill, 1885
509752 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:509752)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Verrill, A. E. (1885). Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer banks off the southern coast of New England No. 11. <em>American Journal of Science, series 3.</em> 29: 149-157., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37166909 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Desmophyllum nobile Verrill, 1885. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=509752 on 2026-05-10
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Verrill, A. E. (1885). Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer banks off the southern coast of New England No. 11. <em>American Journal of Science, series 3.</em> 29: 149-157., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37166909 [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]
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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality