North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS name details

Lophelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

Living coral thickets on Galway Mound, Porcupine Seabight

AphiaID

135095 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135095)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Desmophyllum Ehrenberg, 1834

Rank

Genus

Parent

Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846

Original name

Lophelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849

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Species Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Desmophyllum pertusum (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Milne Edwards, H., Haime, J. (1849). Mémoire sur les Polypiers appartenant aux groupes naturels des Zoanthaires perforés et des Zoanthaires tabulés. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des sciences. 29: 257-263. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Lophelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135095 on 2026-07-15

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Lophelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=135095 on 2026-07-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2006-09-22 06:50:38Z

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Martinez, Olga

2010-09-13 23:22:01Z

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Cairns, Stephen

2018-04-10 12:47:39Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2019-05-29 14:45:14Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2022-06-24 11:12:51Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2023-05-02 19:59:06Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

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original description Milne Edwards, H., Haime, J. (1849). Mémoire sur les Polypiers appartenant aux groupes naturels des Zoanthaires perforés et des Zoanthaires tabulés. Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de l'Académie des sciences. 29: 257-263. [details]

basis of record Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]

additional source Farrow, G. E.; Durant, G. P. (1985). Carbonate-basaltic sediments from Cobb Seamount, Northeast Pacific: zonation, bioerosion and petrology. Marine Geology, 65, 73-102, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0025-3227(85)90047-7
page(s): 73, 78, 79, 90, 91 [details]

additional source Bo, M.; Tazioli, S.; Spanò, N.; Bavestrello, G. (2008). Antipathella subpinnata (Antipatharia, Myriopathidae) in Italian seas. Italian Journal of Zoology, 75(2): 185-195, available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11250000701882908
page(s): 194 [details]

additional source MacDonald, I. R.; Boland, G. S.; Baker, J. S.; Brooks, J. M.; Kennicutt, M. C.; Bidigare, R. R. (1989). Gulf of Mexico hydrocarbon seep communities. Marine Biology, 101, 235-247, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00391463
page(s): 239 [details]

additional source Tambs-Lyche, H. (1954). Notes on the Hydrography of Bolstadfjorden, a Land-locked Fjord near Bergen. A.S. John Griegs Boktrykkeri. Bergen., pp. 13.
page(s): 6, 13 [details]

additional source Filkorn HF. (1994). Fossil Scleractinian Corals from James Ross Basin, Antarctica. Antarctic Research Series. 65: 1-96., available online at https://doi.org/10.1029/ar065 [details]

source of synonymy Addamo AM, Vertino A, Stolarski J, García-Jiménez R, Taviani M, Machordom A. (2016). Merging scleractinian genera: the overwhelming genetic similarity between solitary Desmophyllum and colonial Lophelia. BMC Evolutionary Biology. 16: 108., available online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-016-0654-8 [details]

redescription Cairns, S.D. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Studies on the Natural History of the Caribbean Region. 75: 1-231. [details] Available for editors