Genus Heterocyathus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

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• Heterocyathus Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1848. Recherches sur les Polypiers. Deuxième mémoire: Monographie des Turbinolides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie Ser. 3 9: 211-344 [323].

  Type species:

   Heterocyathus aequicostatus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 by subsequent designation, see Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1850. A monograph of the British fossil corals. First Part. Introduction; corals from the Tertiary and Cretaceous formations. London : Palaeontological Society i-lxxxv, 322 pp., 72 pls. [xv].
• Stephanoseris Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1851. Monographie des polypiers fossiles des terrains palaeozoïques, précédée d'un tableau général de la classification des polypes. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 5: 1-504, pls. I-XX.

  Type species:

   Heterocyathus roussaeanus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 (= Heterocyathus aequicostatus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) by monotypy.
• Spongiocyathus Folkeson, F. 1919. Results of Dr. E. Mjöbergs Swedish scientific expeditions to Australia 1910–1913. Part 22: Madreporaria. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskaps-Academiens Nya Handlingar, Stockholm 59(1): 1–23.
• Psammoseris Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1851. Monographie des polypiers fossiles des terrains palaeozoïques, précédée d'un tableau général de la classification des polypes. Archives du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris 5: 1-504, pls. I-XX.

  Type species:

   Heterocyathus hemisphaericus Gray, 1849 by monotypy.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Hoeksema, B.W. & Best, M.B. 1991. New observations on scleractinian corals from Indonesia: Sipunculan-associated species belonging to the genera Heterocyathus and Heteropsammia. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 65

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417

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