Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Suborder Vacatina > Family Caryophylliidae > Genus Phyllangia

Phyllangia americana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Phyllangia*	Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848	accepted genus name

Children

Phyllangia americana mouchezii (Lacaze-Duthiers, 1897)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: hidden cup coral; hidden cupcoral sources: Cairns, S.D., D.R. Calder, A. Brinckmann-Voss, C.B. Castro, P.R. Pugh, C.E. Cutress, W.C. Jaap, D.G. Fautin, R.J. Larson, G.R. Harbison, M.N. Arai & D.M. Opresko. (1991). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and canada. Cnidaria and Ctenophora. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda. 75: pp.;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Versteckte Nelkenkoralle

Literature

original description	Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3. 12, 3, 95-197.
basis of record	van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO).
additional source	Almy CC, Carrión-Torres C. (1963). Shallow water stony corals of Puerto Rico. Caribbean Journal of Science. 3: 269-279.
additional source	Cairns, S.D. (1977). Caryophylliina and Dendrophylliina (Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises. 3(4): 1-27.
additional source	Cairns, S.D. (1977). A checklist of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Gulf of Mexico, with the description of a new species. Gulf Research Reports. 6 (1): 9-15.
additional source	Castro, C. B.; Echeverría, C. A.; Pires, D. de Oliveira; Fonseca, C. G. (1999). Distribuição do bentos (Cnidaria e Echinodermata) em costões rochosos da Baía da Ilha Grande, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. PPGE-UFRJ. Rio de Janeiro, Brasil., volume VII, pp. 179-193
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additional source	Weisbord NE. (1974). Late Cenozoic corals of south Florida. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 66: 259-544.
additional source	Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1860). Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, séries 2. 19: 279-365, pls 1-10.
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additional source	Cairns, S.D. (1982). Stony corals (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa, Scleractinia) of Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. Smithsonian Contribution to the Marine Sciences. 12:271-302.
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additional source	Volpi, C., Benvenuti D., 2003. The Duchassaing & Michelotti collection of Caribbean corals: status of the types and location of the specimens. Atti della Societa Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale in Milano 144 1: 51-74.
additional source	Robertson R. (1970). Review of the predators and parasites of stony Corals, with special reference to symbiotic Prosobranch Gastropods. Pacific Science 24 (1): 43-54
additional source	Verrill, A.E. (1866). On the polyps and corals from Panama with descriptions of new species. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 10: 323-333.
additional source	Kitahara MV. (2007). Species richness and distribution of azooxanthellate Scleractinia in Brazil. Bulletin of Marine Science. 81 (3): 497-518.
additional source	Laborel, J. (1970). Les peuplements de madréporaires des côtes tropicales du Brésil. Annales de l'Université d'Abidjan, 2, E, (3): 7-261
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additional source	Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1864). Supplément au mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. Memorie della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino, Serie 2. 23: 97-206, plates 1-11.

Genbank

Citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Phyllangia americana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849. 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:346430