Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) diomedeae
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Anthozoa
Order
Scleractinia
Family
Caryophylliidae
Genus
Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia)
Species
diomedeae
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Caryophyllia diomedeae Marenzeller, 1904 (Horton et al., 2021).
Origin: Native
- Cairns, S.D. (1991) A revision of the Ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Galápagos and the Cocos Islands. Smithsonian Contrib. Zool. 504: 1-44.
- Durham, W.J. (1966) Coelenterates, especially stony corals, from the Galápagos and Cocos Islands. In: R.I. Bowman (ed): The Galápagos: Proc. Symposia G.I.S.P. Univ. California Press, Berkeley, p. 123-135.
- Durham, W.J. (1962) Corals from the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 32 (2): 41-56.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- Wells, J.W. (1983) Annotated list of the scleractinian corals of the Galápagos. In: Glynn, P.W. & Wellington, G.M.: Corals and coral reefs of the Galápagos Islands. University of California Press, Berkley, Los Angeles, London, 213-291 p.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) diomedeae", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=24688. Accessed 31 October 2026.