WoRMS taxon details
Cladocora Ehrenberg, 1834
AphiaID: 135087
AphiaID: 135087
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Caryophylliidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Madrepora caespitosa Linnaeus, 1767 (type by subsequent designation) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Caryophylliidae Dana, 1846 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema, 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: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 2000. A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Stud. Nat. Hist. Carib. Reg. 75: 321 pp., 215 figs. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Cladocora arbuscula Lesueur, 1821 Species Cladocora caespitosa (Linnaeus, 1767) Species Cladocora debilis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 Species Cladocora pacifica Cairns, 1991 Species Cladocora conferta Moseley, 1881 accepted as Colangia moseleyi (Faustino, 1927) Species Cladocora moseleyi Moseley, 1881 accepted as Colangia moseleyi (Faustino, 1927) Species Cladocora muellerae Abel, 1959 accepted as Polycyathus muellerae (Abel, 1959) Species Cladocora patriarca Pourtalès, 1874 accepted as Cladocora debilis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 Species Cladocora paulmayeri Doderlein, 1913 accepted as Cladocora debilis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: Zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate species [details] Depth range: 1-480 m [details] Fossil range: Upper Cretaceous to Recent [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135087 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Cladocora Ehrenberg, 1834. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135087 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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