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Protomichelinia grandispinosa

Anthozoa - Favositida - Micheliniidae

Taxonomy
Michelinia grandispinosa was named by Huang (1932).

It was recombined as Protomichelinia grandispinosa by Yang (1978).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1932Michelinia grandispinosa Huang
1978Protomichelinia grandispinosa Yang p. 195 figs. Pl 64, fig 1

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
subclassTabulataMilne-Edwards and Haime 1850
orderFavositidaWedekind 1937
RankNameAuthor
suborderFavositinaWedekind 1937
superfamilyFavositoidea(Dana 1846)
familyMicheliniidaeWaagen and Wentzel 1886
genusProtomichelinia(Yabe and Hayasaka 1915)
speciesgrandispinosa(Huang 1932)

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: low Mg calcitesubc
Locomotion: stationarysubc
Attached: yessubc
Life habit: epifaunalsubc
Diet: suspension feedersubc
Diet 2: photosymbioticsubc
Vision: blindc
Created: 2004-02-27 16:54:11
Modified: 2004-02-28 16:53:41
Source: subc = subclass, c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004
Collections
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