Caryophyllia

Lamarck, 1801, p. 370

Type Species

Madrepora cyathus Ellis and Solander 1786, p. 150, pl. 28, fig. 7; Subsequent Designation Broderip, 1828, p. 486

Type Specimen: Syntype; ; Lost; Unknown

Type Locality: Recent: Mediterranean

Classification

• Family: Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846

Synonyms

• Amblocyathus Orbigny, 1849, p. 5
• Anthophyllea Link, 1807, p. ?
• Anthophyllum Schweigger, 1819, p. 417
• Blastocyathus Reuss, 1864, p. 200
• Ceratocyathus Seguenza, 1864, p. 433 (34)
• Cyathina Ehrenberg, 1834, p. 76 (300)
• Cylindrocyathus Alloiteau, 1952
• Paterocyathus Duchassaing and Michelotti, 1860, p. 59 (335)
• Plesiocaryophyllia Alloiteau, 1958, p. 100

Diagnosis

Corallum solitary, subcylindrical to turbinate, fixed or free; septotheca usually strongly costate, sometimes transversely ridged; pali in one crown opposite penultimate septal cycle (usually S3), occasionally antepenultimate septal cycle; columella fascicular; no endotheca.

Remarks

Dozens of fossil species and 58 Recent species (see Cairns, 1991; Cairns et al., 1999; Baron-Szabo, 2002)

Contains

• Acanthocyathus Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848, p. 292

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This version was contributed by Stephen D. Cairns on 03-Nov-2008 18:41.

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The editor is: Stephen D. Cairns