Epiphaxum

Epiphaxum is a genus of extinct anthozoans in the family Lithotelestidae.[2]

Epiphaxum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Order: Helioporacea
Family: Lithotelestidae
Genus: Epiphaxum
Lonsdale, 1850[1]
Synonyms
  • Lithotelesto Bayer & Muzik, 1977

Species
  • Epiphaxum breve Bayer, 1992[3] †
  • Epiphaxum micropora (Bayer & Muzik, 1977)[4] †
  • Epiphaxum septifer Bayer, 1992[3] †

References
  1. Lonsdale, W. (1850). Notes on the corals. In Dixon, F. (Ed.), The Geology and Fossils of the Tertiary and Cretaceous Formations of Sussex (pp. 237–324). London: Brown, Green, and Longmans.
  2. "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Epiphaxum Lonsdale, 1850 †". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 2018-08-08.
  3. Bayer, F. M. (1992). The helioporacean octocoral Epiphaxum. Recent and fossil. A monographic iconography. Studies in Tropical Oceanography, 15, 1–76.
  4. Bayer, F. M. & Muzik, K. M. (1977). An Atlantic helioporan coral (Coelenterata: Octocorallia). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, 90(4), 975–984.


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