Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Cnidaria > Subphylum Anthozoa > Class Hexacorallia > Order Scleractinia > Suborder Refertina > Family Turbinoliidae > Genus Peponocyathus

Peponocyathus stimpsonii (Pourtalès, 1871)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Leptocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Peponocyathus*	Gravier, 1915	accepted genus name
*Deltocyathoides*	Yabe & Eguchi, 1932	synonym

Species group names

*Deltocyathoides stimpsonii*	(Pourtalès, 1871)	synonym

Literature

additional source	Cairns, S.D. (1979). The deep-water Scleractinia of the Caribbean and adjacent waters. Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands. 57:1-341.
additional source	Viada, S.T. & S.D. Cairns. (1987). Range extensions of ahermatypic Scleractinia in the Gulf of Mexico. Northeast Gulf Science. 9(2): 131-134.
additional source	Vaga, C.F., M.V. Kitahara & S.D. Cairns. (2023). Re-synonymization of the genus Deltocyathoides with Peponocyathus (Anthozoa: Scleractinia: Turbinoliidae). Zootaxa. 5271(3): 595-598.
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	Lewis, John B. 1965. A preliminary description of some marine benthic communities from Barbados, West Indies. Canadian Journal of Zoology 43: 1049-1074.
additional source	Cairns, S.D. (1977). Caryophylliina and Dendrophylliina (Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Memoirs of the Hourglass Cruises. 3(4): 1-27.
redescription	Zibrowius H. (1980). Les scléractiniaires de la Méditerranée et de l'Atlantique nord-oriental. Mémoires de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco. 11: 1-284, pls. 1-117.

Genbank

Citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Peponocyathus stimpsonii (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:546694