WoRMS taxon details
Acropora danai (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860)
AphiaID: 206990
AphiaID: 206990
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Acropora irregularis (Brook, 1892) Acropora rotumana (Gardiner) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] basis of record: Sheppard, C.R.C. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. Atoll Research Bulletin Nr 307 [details] basis of record: Sheppard, C.R.C. (1998). Corals of the Indian Ocean: a taxonomic and distribution database for coral reef ecologists [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] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos [details] East Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Indo-West Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Scyphuliger tenuatus (Humes, 1990) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Xarifia anomala Humes & Ho, 1968 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Xarifia breviramea Humes & Dojiri, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Xarifia sabiuraensis Misaki, 1978 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Xarifia trituberata Humes & Dojiri, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Colonies consist of sprawling prostrate branches with upwardly projecting pointed ends at the periphery. Radial corallites are like those of A. robusta. Colour : deep pinkish-brown or greenish-grey. Abundance: usually restricted to shallow reef environments. Common on reef margins exposed to strong wave action (Veron, 1986). [details] Spelling: Spelled A. danae in Fauré (1977). Type locality: unrecorded (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206990 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Acropora danai (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206990 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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