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

Stephanocyathus Seguenza, 1864

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Stephanotrochus*	Moseley, 1880	synonym

Children

Stephanocyathus (Odontocyathus) Moseley, 1880
Stephanocyathus (Stephanocyathus) Seguenza, 1864

Literature

original description	Seguenza, G. (1863-1864). Disquisizioni paleontologiche intorno ai corallarii fossili delle rocce Terziarie del distretto di Messina. Memorie della Reale Accademia delle Scienze di Torino, Serie II. 21: 399-458, ples 1-5 [1863], 459-560, pls. 6-15 [1864].
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	den Hartog, J. C.; Ocaña, O.; Brito, A. (1993). Corallimorpharia collected during the CANCAP expeditions (1976-1986) in the south-eastern part of the North Atlantic. Zoologische Verhandelingen, 282, 3-76
additional source	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
additional source	Smith FGW. (1954). Gulf of Mexico Madreporaria. Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.). 55, 291-295.
additional source	Hall-Spencer, J.; Allain, V.; Fosså, J. H. (2002). Trawling damage to Northeast Atlantic ancient coral reefs. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 269, 507-511
additional source	Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers.
additional source	Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere.
additional source	Wells JW. (1936). The nomenclature and type species of some genera of recent and fossil corals. American Journal of Science. 31: 97-134.
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
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
additional source	Squires DF, Ralph PM. (1965). A new scleractinian coral of the genus Flabellum from New Zealand, with a new record of Stephanocyathus. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 78 : 259-264.

Genbank

Citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Stephanocyathus Seguenza, 1864. 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:135102