Genus Platytrochus Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Museums

Regional Maps

• Platytrochus 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 [246-247].

  Type species:

   Tturbinolia stokesii Lea, 1833 by subsequent designation, see Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1850. Classification of polypi. pp. viii-xxxv in Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 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. [xvii].
• Koilotrochus Tenison-Woods, J.E. 1878. On the extra-tropical corals of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 2: 292-341 [313].
• Aldrichia Vaughan, T.W. 1900. The Eocene and Lower Oligocene Coral Faunas of the United States, with Descriptions of a Few Doubtfully Cretaceous Species. United States Geological Survey Monograph 39: 263 pp., 24 pls. [70] [junior homonym of Aldrichia Coquillett, 1894 (Insecta Diptera)].
• Aldrichiella Vaughan, T.W. 1903. Corrections to the Nomenclature of the Eocene Fossil Corals of the United States. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 16: 101.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Cairns, S.D. 1997. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Turbinoliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 591: 55 pp., 10 pls, 5 figs [28]

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

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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