Calamophyllia subgracilis d'Orbigny 1850 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Calamophylliidae

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 2:1-428

Belongs to Calamophyllia according to E. de Fromentel 1861

See also d'Orbigny 1850 and Milne-Edwards 1857

Sister taxa: Calamophyllia articulosa, Calamophyllia cassiana, Calamophyllia corallina, Calamophyllia cotteauana, Calamophyllia crassitorquata, Calamophyllia ducreti, Calamophyllia furcata, Calamophyllia grandis, Calamophyllia granulosa, Calamophyllia inaequalis, Calamophyllia kimmeridgiensis, Calamophyllia luciensis, Calamophyllia northeyi, Calamophyllia prima, Calamophyllia pseudostylina, Calamophyllia rhaetiana, Calamophyllia sequana, Calamophyllia sikesi, Calamophyllia stereoplasmophyla, Calamophyllia strangulata, Calamophyllia striata, Calamophyllia subtilis, Calamophyllia tangana, Calamophyllia undulata, Calamoseris disputabilis

Type specimen: syntype MNHN.F.A09356, a partial skeleton

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Calamophyllia subgracilis in the database

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