WoRMS name details

Acropora palifera (Lamarck, 1816)

207037  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207037)

 unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Astrea palifera Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. M. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome second. <em>Paris. Verdière.</em> Vol. 2 pp. 1-568., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Holotype  USNM 44648, geounit Marshall Islands...  
Holotype USNM 44648, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Note "Southern Ocean" (Veron, 1986)  
From other sources
Type locality "Southern Ocean" (Veron, 1986) [details]
Description The corallum of this species may be encrusting, massive, groups of ridges or may consist of stubby branches. The form taken...  
Description The corallum of this species may be encrusting, massive, groups of ridges or may consist of stubby branches. The form taken depends on the degree of exposure - the encrusting forms are found in shallow water on seaward reefs of oceanic atolls in the Indian Ocean, for example, while progressively more fragile forms occur in progressively more sheltered water. Corallites have the appearance of pale beads. There is no single or larger axial corallite on the ends of those coralla which have branches. Acropora cuneata which is very similar has been reported from two locations in the Indian Ocean (Sheppard, 1998).
Colonies are encrusting plates, ridges or columns, without axial corallites. Colour: pale cream or brown. Abundance: Occurs in all reef environments (Veron, 1986). [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora palifera (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207037 on 2024-03-29
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1996-10-25 14:03:33Z
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2000-09-28 07:24:50Z
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Garcia, Maria
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
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2013-05-11 00:07:58Z
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2014-04-13 09:56:48Z
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2014-06-29 12:10:12Z
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2017-12-08 08:10:58Z
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original description  (of Astrea palifera Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. M. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome second. <em>Paris. Verdière.</em> Vol. 2 pp. 1-568., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS[details]   

basis of record Veron JEN, Wallace CC (1984) Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part V. Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series 6: 1–485. [details]   

additional source Crossland C (1952) Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Scientific Report Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 VI(3): 85-257.
page(s): 94, 100 [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): 28 [details]   

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): 26, 48 [details]   

additional source Pillai CSG. (1972). Stony corals of the seas around India. <em>Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Corals and Coral Reefs, 1969. Marine Biological Association of India Symposium.</em> 5: 191-216.
page(s): 199 [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 I: Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 1, pp. 463.
page(s): 186-187 [details]   

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details]   

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Rose Atoll coral data compiled from US Fish and Wildlife Service 1994, Townsend Cromwell 2002, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 10]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details]   

additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260(I): 385-486.
page(s): 391, 397, 398, 400, 401, 403, 404, 405, 406, 420, 426, 427, 430, 435, pls. 132, 133 [details]   

additional source Pillai CSG. (1983). Structure and generic diversity of recent Scleractinia of India. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 25, 1-2, 78-90.
page(s): 84 [details]   

additional source Sheppard, C. R. C.; Sheppard, A. L. S. (1985). The central Red Sea at Yanbu al Sinaiyah. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 17-36
page(s): 30 [details]   

additional source Kruger, A.; Schleyer, M. H.; Benayahu, Y. (1998). Reproduction in Anthelia glauca (Octocorallia: Xeniidae). I. Gametogenesis and larval brooding. Marine Biology, 131, 423-432
page(s): 429 [details]   

additional source Reinicke, G. B.; van Ofwegen, L. P. (1999). Soft corals (Alcyonacea: Octocorallia) from shallow water in the Chagos Archipelago: species assemblages and their distribution. Linnean Society Occasional Publications, 2, 67-85, plates 1-10
page(s): 80 [details]   

additional source Reimer, J. D.; Ono, S.; Tsukahara, J.; Takishita, K.; Maruyama, T. (2007). Non-seasonal clade-specificity and subclade microvariation in symbiotic dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium spp.) in Zoanthus sansibaricus (Anthozoa: Hexacorallia) at Kagoshima Bay, Japan. Phycological Research, 55, 58-65
page(s): 59 [details]   

additional source Hellberg, M. E.; Taylor, M. S. (2002). Genetic analysis of sexual reproduction in the dendrophylliid coral Balanophyllia elegans. Marine Biology, 141, 629-637
page(s): 634 [details]   

additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em>  [details]   

additional source Hoffmeister, J.E. (1925). Some corals from America Samoa and the Fiji Islands. <em>Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 22: 1-90, pls. 1-23.
page(s): 10, 11, 12, 69-70 [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): 15 [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  PDF available [request] 

additional source Scheer G, Pillai CSG. (1974). Report on Scleractinia from the Nicobar Islands. <em>Zoologica, Stuttgart.</em> 42(122): 1-75.
page(s): 5, 6, 8, 25, 74 [details]   

additional source Wallace CC (1997) New species and new records of recently described species of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) from Indonesia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120: 27-50. [details]   

additional source Nemenzo, F. (1967). Systematic studies on Philippine shallow-water scleractinians. VI Suborder Astrocoeniina (Montipora and Acropora). (Part I - Text; Part II - Plates). <em>Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines.</em> 20: 1-141, 143-223.
page(s): 6, 133, 135-136 [details]   

additional source Pillai CSG, Scheer G (1976) Report on the stony corals from the Maldive Archipelago. Results of the Xarifa Expedition 1957/58. Zoologica, Stuttgart 43 (126): 1-83, pls. 1-32. [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype USNM 44648, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 146-3, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 154-12, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype MSI C-13 [details]
Nontype MSI C-257, geounit Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype MSI C-325 [details]
Nontype MTQ G34983, geounit New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype UWA 659-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 296-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 323-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 336-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 370-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 471-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From other sources
Biology zooxanthellate [details]

Description The corallum of this species may be encrusting, massive, groups of ridges or may consist of stubby branches. The form taken depends on the degree of exposure - the encrusting forms are found in shallow water on seaward reefs of oceanic atolls in the Indian Ocean, for example, while progressively more fragile forms occur in progressively more sheltered water. Corallites have the appearance of pale beads. There is no single or larger axial corallite on the ends of those coralla which have branches. Acropora cuneata which is very similar has been reported from two locations in the Indian Ocean (Sheppard, 1998).
Colonies are encrusting plates, ridges or columns, without axial corallites. Colour: pale cream or brown. Abundance: Occurs in all reef environments (Veron, 1986). [details]

Type locality "Southern Ocean" (Veron, 1986) [details]
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Japanese ニオウミドリイシ  [details]