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Deep-Sea taxon details

Fungiacyathus Sars, 1872

Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) marenzelleri, oblique view

AphiaID

135119 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135119)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Fungiacyathus fragilis Sars, 1872 represented as Fungiacyathus (Fungiacyathus) fragilis Sars, 1872 (type by monotypy)

Typetaxon of

Fungiacyathidae Chevalier & L. Beauvais, 1987

Parent

Fungiacyathidae Chevalier & L. Beauvais, 1987

Original name

Fungiacyathus Sars, 1872

Synonymised names

Bathytrochus Gravier, 1915 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Subgenus Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) Moseley, 1880
Subgenus Fungiacyathus (Fungiacyathus) Sars, 1872
Species Fungiacyathus crispus (Pourtalès, 1871) represented as Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) crispus (Pourtalès, 1871)
Species Fungiacyathus fragilis Sars, 1872 represented as Fungiacyathus (Fungiacyathus) fragilis Sars, 1872
Species Fungiacyathus hydra Zibrowius & Gili, 1990 represented as Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) hydra Zibrowius & Gili, 1990
Species Fungiacyathus marenzelleri (Vaughan, 1906) represented as Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) marenzelleri (Vaughan, 1906)
Species Fungiacyathus pusillus (De Pourtalès, 1868) represented as Fungiacyathus (Fungiacyathus) pusillus (De Pourtalès, 1868)
Species Fungiacyathus sibogae (Alcock, 1902) represented as Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) sibogae (Alcock, 1902)
Species Fungiacyathus symmetricus (Pourtalès, 1871) represented as Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) symmetricus (Pourtalès, 1871)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Sars, G. O. (1872). On some remarkable forms of animal life from the great deeps off the Norwegian coast. I. Partly from the posthumous manuscripts of the late Professor Michael Sars. Christiania University Program for the first half year 1869, 1869: 82 pp., 4 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11677777 [details]

Descriptive notes

Depth range 69-2200 m

Depth range 69-2200 m [details]

Fossil range Cretaceous to Recent

Fossil range Cretaceous to Recent [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Fungiacyathus Sars, 1872. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135119 on 2024-11-19

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Fungiacyathus Sars, 1872. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135119 on 2024-11-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2006-09-12 06:54:36Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-08-03 18:21:02Z

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Cairns, Stephen

2010-09-09 02:46:30Z

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Cairns, Stephen

2018-12-14 12:11:28Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2020-07-22 16:02:58Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-07-26 08:45:35Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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original description Sars, G. O. (1872). On some remarkable forms of animal life from the great deeps off the Norwegian coast. I. Partly from the posthumous manuscripts of the late Professor Michael Sars. Christiania University Program for the first half year 1869, 1869: 82 pp., 4 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11677777 [details]

original description (of Bathytrochus Gravier, 1915) Gravier, C. (1915). Note préliminaire sur les Madréporaires recueilles au cours des croisières de la Princesse-Alice et de l'Hirondelle II, de inclusivement. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco. 304: 1-22. [details]

basis of record Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Daly, M.M., Fautin D.G., Cappola V.A., 2003. Systematics of the Hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 3: 419-437.
page(s): 430 [details] Available for editors

additional source Cairns, S.D. (1989). A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Philippine Islands and adjacent waters, Part 1: Fungiacyathidae, Micrabaciidae, Turbinoliinae, Guyniidae, and Flabellidae. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 486: 1-136. [details] Available for editors

additional source Cairns, S.D. & H. Zibrowius. (1997). Cnidaria Anthozoa: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. in: Crosnier, A. et al. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 16. Campagne Franco-Indonésienne KARUBAR. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie. 172: 27-244. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source 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]

additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]

additional source Zibrowius, H. & M.J. Grygier. (1985). Diversity and range of scleractinian coral hosts of Ascothoracida (Crustacea: Maxillopoda). Annales de l'Institut Océanographique. 61(2):115-138.
page(s): 119-120, Fig. 8 & 9 [details] Available for editors

additional source Riemann-Zürneck, K.; Iken, K. (2003). Corallimorphus profundus in shallow Antarctic habitats: bionomics, histology, and systematcis (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia). Zoologische Verhandelingen, 345, 367-386
page(s): 382 [details]

additional source Smith FGW. (1954). Gulf of Mexico Madreporaria. Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.). 55, 291-295.
page(s): 294 [details]

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Comparison Monotypic [details]

Diagnosis Corallum solitary, cupolate, free; septotheca horizontal, often concave, and thin and fragile; costae usually thin ridges; axial edges of septa irregularly dentate, laterally braced by thin T- or Y-shaped synapticular plates that extend upwards and outwards; five cycles of septa; dissepiments absent; paliform lobes sometimes present; columella feeble. [details]

Remark Several fossil species and six Recent species (Cairns, 1989; Szabo, 2002). [details]

Unreviewed

Biology azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range 69-2200 m [details]

Fossil range Cretaceous to Recent [details]

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