WoRMS taxon details
Solenosmilia Duncan, 1873
135101 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135101)
accepted
Genus
Solenosmilia variabilis Duncan, 1873 (type by monotypy)
- Species Solenosmilia australis Cairns & Polonio, 2013
- Species Solenosmilia variabilis Duncan, 1873
- Species Solenosmilia jefferyi Alcock, 1898 accepted as Solenosmilia variabilis Duncan, 1873 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, misspelling)
- Species Solenosmilia jeffreyi Alcock, 1898 accepted as Solenosmilia variabilis Duncan, 1873 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Duncan PM. (1873). A description of the Madreporaria dredged up during the Expeditions of H.M.S. 'Porcupine' in 1869 and 1870. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 8: 303-344, pls. 39-49. [details]
Depth range 220-2165 m
Depth range 220-2165 m [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Solenosmilia Duncan, 1873. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135101 on 2025-07-18
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Nomenclature
original description
Duncan PM. (1873). A description of the Madreporaria dredged up during the Expeditions of H.M.S. 'Porcupine' in 1869 and 1870. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 8: 303-344, pls. 39-49. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Cairns, S.D. (1995). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Memoir.</em> 103: 1-210. [details] Available for editors 
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[request]Other
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [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 Keller, N. B.; Naumov, D. V.; Pasternak, F. A. (1975). Bottom deep-sea Coelenterata from the Gulf and Caribbean [In Russian]. Transactions of the Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 100, 147-159
page(s): 157 [details]
additional source Stetson, T. R.; Squires, D. F.; Pratt, R. M. (1962). Coral banks occurring in deep water on the Blake Plateau. American Museum Novitates, (2114): 1-39
page(s): 34 [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [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 Keller, N. B.; Naumov, D. V.; Pasternak, F. A. (1975). Bottom deep-sea Coelenterata from the Gulf and Caribbean [In Russian]. Transactions of the Institute of Oceanology, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, 100, 147-159
page(s): 157 [details]
additional source Stetson, T. R.; Squires, D. F.; Pratt, R. M. (1962). Coral banks occurring in deep water on the Blake Plateau. American Museum Novitates, (2114): 1-39
page(s): 34 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Corallum colonial, either dendroid or subphaceloid achieved by equal intracalicular budding; coenosteum granular with C1 sometimes present; pali absent; columella inconspicuous; tabular endothecal dissepiments present. [details]Remark Monotypic. This is one of a dozen cosmopolitan Recent species, and also one of the deep-water framework building corals, forming deep reefs in the North Atlantic. [details]
Unreviewed
Biology azooxanthellate [details]Depth range 220-2165 m [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Solenosmilia)
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 022550)
To ITIS
To Genbank
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 022550)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
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