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Heliocoenia dendroidea

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae

Taxonomy
Heliocoenia dendroidea was named by Étallon (1859). Its type specimen is NMB-D6442-6445 and MNHN-F-B47510 (Syntypes), a skeleton, and it is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Diplocoenia dendroidea by Koby (1906); it was recombined as Stylina dendroidea by de Fromentel (1861), Beauvais (1972), Beauvais and Nouiouat (1993).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
H. compacta, H. decasepta, H. pentagonalis, Stylina choffati

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1859Heliocoenia dendroidea Étallon p. 476
1861Stylina dendroidea de Fromentel p. 193
1906Diplocoenia dendroidea Koby
1972Stylina dendroidea Beauvais pp. 44-45
1993Stylina dendroidea Beauvais and Nouiouat

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
—Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderStylininaAlloiteau 1952
familyStylinidaed'Orbigny 1851
subfamilyStylininaed'Orbigny 1851
genusHeliocoenia
speciesdendroidea

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Heliocoenia dendroidea Étallon 1859
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Diagnosis
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