WoRMS taxon details
Montastraea annularis (Ellis & Solander)
AphiaID: 207479
AphiaID: 207479
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Montastraeidae (Family) > Montastraea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Montastraea Blainville, 1830 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [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] Guatemala [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Hispaniola [details] Honduras [details] Jamaica [details] Mexico [details] Mozambique (not valid) [details] Nicaragua [details] Panama [details] Puerto Rico [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Asterocheres maxillatus Stock, 1987 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207479 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Montastraea annularis (Ellis & Solander). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207479 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||||||||
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