WoRMS taxon details
Stylaraea punctata (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 212178
AphiaID: 212178
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Poritidae (Family) > Stylaraea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Stylaraea | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [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 [details] Comores [details] Djibouti [details] Eritrea [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Colonies are circular, encrusting. They are less than 15 mm in diameter and are thus smaller than any other coral. Colonies have up to 12 corallites which resemble those of Porites. Abundance: very rare. The species is always found in shallow-water environments uninhibited by other corals. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details] Remark: Original combination in Sheppard 1998 <308>. Type locality: Fossil from Europe? (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:212178 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Stylaraea punctata (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=212178 on 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||
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