WoRMS taxon details
Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck, 1816)
AphiaID: 206989
AphiaID: 206989
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Acroporidae (Family) > Acropora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Acropora Oken, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Wallace, C.C., 1999. Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography.
: i-xviii, 1-421. [details] additional source: S.D.Cairns, B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land, update Oct. 2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., W.C. Jaap, and J.C. Lang. 2009. Scleractinia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 333–347 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aruba [details] Belize [details] Bonaire [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Curaçao [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Hispaniola [details] Honduras [details] Jamaica [details] Mexico [details] Mozambique [details] Nicaragua [details] Panama [details] Puerto Rico [details] Venezuela [details] West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (50 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (289 nucleotides; 83 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Also distributed in Australia in Kalk (1958). Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206989 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206989 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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