Deep-Sea name details
Bathyactis Moseley, 1880
411156 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:411156)
unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Genus
Fungia symmetrica Pourtalès, 1871 accepted as Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) symmetricus (Pourtalès, 1871) (type by monotypy)
- Species Bathyactis hawaiiensis Vaughan, 1907 accepted as Fungiacyathus (Fungiacyathus) fragilis Sars, 1872 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Bathyactis palifera Alcock, 1902 accepted as Fungiacyathus (Fungiacyathus) paliferus (Alcock, 1902) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
- Species Bathyactis sibogae Alcock, 1902 accepted as Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) sibogae (Alcock, 1902) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
- Species Bathyactis stephana Alcock, 1893 accepted as Fungiacyathus (Fungiacyathus) stephanus (Alcock, 1893) (unaccepted > superseded combination, misspelling)
- Species Bathyactis symmetrica (Pourtalès, 1871) accepted as Fungiacyathus (Bathyactis) symmetricus (Pourtalès, 1871) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Moseley, H.N. (1881 [1880]). Report on certain hydroid, alcyonarian, and madreporarian corals procured during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, in the years 1873–1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 2 (part 7): 1-248, pl. Hydrocorallinae 1-14, Helioporidae 1-2, Madreporaria 1-16., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-07/README.htm [details]
Status A subgenus of Fungiacyathus Sars, 1872
Status A subgenus of Fungiacyathus Sars, 1872 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Bathyactis Moseley, 1880. 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=411156 on 2025-04-04
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Bathyactis Moseley, 1880. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=411156 on 2025-04-04
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Moseley, H.N. (1881 [1880]). Report on certain hydroid, alcyonarian, and madreporarian corals procured during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, in the years 1873–1876. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Zoology.</em> 2 (part 7): 1-248, pl. Hydrocorallinae 1-14, Helioporidae 1-2, Madreporaria 1-16., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-07/README.htm [details]
additional source Chevalier J-P. (1961). Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale. <em>Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France, Nouvelle Série.</em> 40(93): 1-562, pls. 1-26. [details]
additional source Delphy, J. (1939). Sur quelques problèmes d' Actinologie. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), XI, 2, (5): 479-483
page(s): 483 [details]
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 Chevalier J-P. (1961). Recherches sur les Madreporaires et les formations recifales Miocenes de la Mediterranee occidentale. <em>Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France, Nouvelle Série.</em> 40(93): 1-562, pls. 1-26. [details]
additional source Delphy, J. (1939). Sur quelques problèmes d' Actinologie. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), XI, 2, (5): 479-483
page(s): 483 [details]
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]
From editor or global species database
Comparison Monotypic [details]Diagnosis Like the nominate subgenus, but having only four cycles of septa [details]
Remark Contains the record of the deepest living scleractinian coral species at 6328 m (Keller, 1974). Seventeen species, including 3 fossil species (Cairns, 1989, 1999). [details]
Status A subgenus of Fungiacyathus Sars, 1872 [details]
