WoRMS taxon details
Leptoseris explanata Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941
207289 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207289)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1941). Recent reef-building corals from Japan and the South Sea Islands under the Japanese mandate. II. <em>The Science reports of the Tôhoku, Imperial University, Sendai, 2nd Series (Geologie).</em> Special Volume 2: 67-91, pls. 60-104. [details]
Type locality contained in Palau Exclusive Economic Zone
, Note Palau (Veron, 1986)
type locality contained in Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From other sources
Type locality Palau (Veron, 1986) [details]
Description Coralla are thin leaves, often symmetrical discs, but also irregular, contorted and even branched. Calices are 3 to 4 mm...
Description Coralla are thin leaves, often symmetrical discs, but also irregular, contorted and even branched. Calices are 3 to 4 mm diameter. In shallow or well lit areas, calices tend to run in rows parallel to the leaf edge, and slightly inclined towards it, and are separated by 3 to 10 mm. As depth increases, calices become more scattered, and in very dim sites the thin leaves have extensive areas without calices. In these, calices may be found near the central attachment area. Septa are strongly alternating. However, in many cases, only the first order septa reach the calice, so that septa around the low calical mound are equal; in such cases, second order calices emerge only outside the calice. This is fairly common on deep reef slopes, generally in clear water. It can survive in extremely low light levels, such as in caves. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>)
Colonies are composed of unifacial laminae which may be horizontal with entire or lobed margins, or contorted and partly upright. Corallites are widely spaced and outwardly inclined. Septo-costae alternate strongly, forming fine but conspicuous radiating ridges. Colour: pale brown or yellow-brown, often with white margins. Abundance: seldom common except on vertical or overhang faces, especially of lower reef slopes. (Veron, 1986 <57>)
Forms distinctive leaf or plate-like colonies which may be lobed or grow in a complete whorl. The septo-costae connecting the corallites are linear and the corallites themselves protrude outwards, giving a characteristic appearance. Colour: usually pale orange or brown with paler margins. Habitat: vertical sides of deeper reefs. (Richmond, 1997) [details]
Colonies are composed of unifacial laminae which may be horizontal with entire or lobed margins, or contorted and partly upright. Corallites are widely spaced and outwardly inclined. Septo-costae alternate strongly, forming fine but conspicuous radiating ridges. Colour: pale brown or yellow-brown, often with white margins. Abundance: seldom common except on vertical or overhang faces, especially of lower reef slopes. (Veron, 1986 <57>)
Forms distinctive leaf or plate-like colonies which may be lobed or grow in a complete whorl. The septo-costae connecting the corallites are linear and the corallites themselves protrude outwards, giving a characteristic appearance. Colour: usually pale orange or brown with paler margins. Habitat: vertical sides of deeper reefs. (Richmond, 1997) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Leptoseris explanata Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207289 on 2024-04-26
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Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1941). Recent reef-building corals from Japan and the South Sea Islands under the Japanese mandate. II. <em>The Science reports of the Tôhoku, Imperial University, Sendai, 2nd Series (Geologie).</em> Special Volume 2: 67-91, pls. 60-104. [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 459: 13-46.
page(s): 18 [details]
additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137.
page(s): 130 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1980). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part III. Family Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectinidae, Caryophyllidae, Dendrophylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 4: 1-459. [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details]
additional source Nemenzo F, Hodgson G (1983) Philippine scleractinian corals – additional records. Philippine Journal of Science 112: 29-55.
page(s): 30, 37, 38, 59 [details]
additional source Dinesen, Z. D. (1980). A revision of the coral genus <i>Leptoseris</i> (Scleractinia: Fungina: Agariciidae. <em>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.</em> 20: 182-235. [details]
additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33.
page(s): 29 [details]
additional source Kitahara, M.V., J. Stolarski, S.D. Cairns, F. Benzoni, J.L. Stake & D.J. Miller. (2012). The first modern solitary Agariciidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) revealed by molecular and microstructural analysis. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 26 (3): 303-315., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is11053
page(s): 313 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555
page(s): 30, 78 [details]
additional source Randall RH, Myers RF. (1983). The corals. Guide to the Coastal Resources of Guam: Vol. 2. <em>University of Guam Press, Guam, pp. 128.</em> [details]
additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume II: Families Astrocoeniidae, Pocilloporidae, Euphyllidae, Oculinidae, Meandrinidae, Siderastreidae, Agariciidae, Fungiidae, Rhizangiidae, Pectiniidae, Merulinidae, Dendrophylliidae, Caryophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 2, pp. 429.
page(s): 208-209 [details]
additional source Veron, J. E. N.; Pichon, M. (1979). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia, part III: Families Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectiniidae, Caryophylliidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra., volume 4, pp. 422.
page(s): 37, 42-47 [details]
additional source Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 62, 77, 111 [details]
additional source Wallace, C. C.; Fellegara, I.; Muir, P. R.; Harrison, P. L. (2009). The scleractinian corals of Moreton Bay, eastern Australia: high latitude, marginal assemblages with increasing species richness. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 54, 2
page(s): 9 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 459: 13-46.
page(s): 18 [details]
additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137.
page(s): 130 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1980). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part III. Family Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectinidae, Caryophyllidae, Dendrophylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 4: 1-459. [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details]
additional source Nemenzo F, Hodgson G (1983) Philippine scleractinian corals – additional records. Philippine Journal of Science 112: 29-55.
page(s): 30, 37, 38, 59 [details]
additional source Dinesen, Z. D. (1980). A revision of the coral genus <i>Leptoseris</i> (Scleractinia: Fungina: Agariciidae. <em>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.</em> 20: 182-235. [details]
additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33.
page(s): 29 [details]
additional source Kitahara, M.V., J. Stolarski, S.D. Cairns, F. Benzoni, J.L. Stake & D.J. Miller. (2012). The first modern solitary Agariciidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) revealed by molecular and microstructural analysis. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 26 (3): 303-315., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is11053
page(s): 313 [details] Available for editors
[request] additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555
page(s): 30, 78 [details]
additional source Randall RH, Myers RF. (1983). The corals. Guide to the Coastal Resources of Guam: Vol. 2. <em>University of Guam Press, Guam, pp. 128.</em> [details]
additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume II: Families Astrocoeniidae, Pocilloporidae, Euphyllidae, Oculinidae, Meandrinidae, Siderastreidae, Agariciidae, Fungiidae, Rhizangiidae, Pectiniidae, Merulinidae, Dendrophylliidae, Caryophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 2, pp. 429.
page(s): 208-209 [details]
additional source Veron, J. E. N.; Pichon, M. (1979). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia, part III: Families Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectiniidae, Caryophylliidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra., volume 4, pp. 422.
page(s): 37, 42-47 [details]
additional source Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 62, 77, 111 [details]
additional source Wallace, C. C.; Fellegara, I.; Muir, P. R.; Harrison, P. L. (2009). The scleractinian corals of Moreton Bay, eastern Australia: high latitude, marginal assemblages with increasing species richness. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 54, 2
page(s): 9 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype NMSR 8575, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 149-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 199-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 219-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 317-79, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 31-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 366-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 378-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 388-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 588-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 909-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 933-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 942-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 946-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 946-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]From other sources
Description Coralla are thin leaves, often symmetrical discs, but also irregular, contorted and even branched. Calices are 3 to 4 mm diameter. In shallow or well lit areas, calices tend to run in rows parallel to the leaf edge, and slightly inclined towards it, and are separated by 3 to 10 mm. As depth increases, calices become more scattered, and in very dim sites the thin leaves have extensive areas without calices. In these, calices may be found near the central attachment area. Septa are strongly alternating. However, in many cases, only the first order septa reach the calice, so that septa around the low calical mound are equal; in such cases, second order calices emerge only outside the calice. This is fairly common on deep reef slopes, generally in clear water. It can survive in extremely low light levels, such as in caves. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>)Colonies are composed of unifacial laminae which may be horizontal with entire or lobed margins, or contorted and partly upright. Corallites are widely spaced and outwardly inclined. Septo-costae alternate strongly, forming fine but conspicuous radiating ridges. Colour: pale brown or yellow-brown, often with white margins. Abundance: seldom common except on vertical or overhang faces, especially of lower reef slopes. (Veron, 1986 <57>)
Forms distinctive leaf or plate-like colonies which may be lobed or grow in a complete whorl. The septo-costae connecting the corallites are linear and the corallites themselves protrude outwards, giving a characteristic appearance. Colour: usually pale orange or brown with paler margins. Habitat: vertical sides of deeper reefs. (Richmond, 1997) [details]
Type locality Palau (Veron, 1986) [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | porcelain coral | [details] |
