Cryptocoenia arduennensis d'Orbigny 1850 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cyathophoridae

Full reference: A. d'Orbigny. 1850. Prodrome du paléontologie stratigraphique universelle des animaux mollusques et rayonnés faisant suite au cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphique 1:1-392

Belongs to Cryptocoenia according to A. d'Orbigny 1850

See also Edwards and Haime 1851 and Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857

Sister taxa: Cryptocoenia aguilerai, Cryptocoenia almerai, Cryptocoenia antiqua, Cryptocoenia biedai, Cryptocoenia brevis, Cryptocoenia cartieri, Cryptocoenia castellum, Cryptocoenia corbariensis, Cryptocoenia desori, Cryptocoenia dubia, Cryptocoenia fontserei, Cryptocoenia intricata, Cryptocoenia jacobi, Cryptocoenia matskevici, Cryptocoenia miyakoensis, Cryptocoenia neocomiensis, Cryptocoenia nivernensis, Cryptocoenia octonaria, Cryptocoenia octosepta, Cryptocoenia ornata, Cryptocoenia pistillum, Cryptocoenia regularis, Cryptocoenia stelliserrata, Cryptocoenia sublimbata, Cryptocoenia subregularis

Type specimen: syntypes MNHN-F-A09463 to 64, a skeleton

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Cryptocoenia arduennensis in the database

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