Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Medusozoa > Class Hydrozoa > Subclass Hydroidolina > Order Anthoathecata > Suborder Filifera > Family Stylasteridae > Genus Stenohelia

Stenohelia maderensis (Johnson, 1862)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Allopora Ehrenberg, 1834

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Stenohelia*	Kent, 1870	accepted genus name

Literature

basis of record	van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, 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. 112-120
additional source	Boschma H. (1967). Comments upon Hickson's notes on Stylasterina in the collection of the Paris Museum. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen - Amsterdam, Series C. 70 (3): 324-337, pls. 1-2.
additional source	Boschma H. (1964). Further notes on the stylasterine coral Stenohelia challengeri and Stenohelia maderensis. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen - Amsterdam, Series C. 67 (2): 78-84, pls. 1-2.
additional source	Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. Atoll Research Bulletin. 459: 13-46.
additional source	Saville Kent W. (1871). On some new and little-known species of madrepores, or stony corals, in the British Museum Collection. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London for the Year 1871. 275-286, pls. 23-25.
redescription	Cairns, S.D. (1983). A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. Bulletin of Marine Science. 33(2): 427-508.
redescription	Zibrowius, H. & S.D. Cairns. (1992). Revision of the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). Mémoires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, série A, Zoolologie. 153: 1-136.
new combination reference	Kent WS. (1870). On a new genus of the Madreporaria or stony corals (Stenohelia). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 4). 5: 120-123.

Genbank

Citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Stenohelia maderensis (Johnson, 1862). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117963