Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Family Stenocyathidae

Stenocyathus Pourtalès, 1871

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Stenocyathus vermiformis (Pourtalès, 1868)

Literature

original description	Pourtalès L.F. de. (1871). Deep-sea corals. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 2 (4): 1-93, pls. 1-8.
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
additional source	Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
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.
additional source	Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers.
additional source	Smith FGW. (1954). Gulf of Mexico Madreporaria. Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.). 55, 291-295.
additional source	Squires DF. (1961). Deep sea corals collected by the Lamont Geological Observatory. 2. Scotia Sea corals. American Museum Novitates. 2046: 1-48.
redescription	Cairns, S.D. (1995). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa. New Zealand Oceanographic Memoir. 103: 1-210.
redescription	Cairns, S.D. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Studies on the Natural History of the Caribbean Region. 75: 1-231.

Genbank

Citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Stenocyathus Pourtalès, 1871. 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:135122