UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Dipsastraea laxa (Klunzinger, 1879)

WoRMS taxon details

Dipsastraea laxa (Klunzinger, 1879)

AphiaID

758235 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:758235)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Dipsastraea Blainville, 1830

Original name

Orbicella laxa Klunzinger, 1879

Synonymised names

Favia laxa (Klunzinger, 1879) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Goniastrea laxa (Klunzinger, 1879) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Orbicella laxa Klunzinger, 1879 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)

Plesiastrea laxa (Klunzinger, 1879) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Orbicella laxa Klunzinger, 1879) Klunzinger CB. (1879). Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres, 3. Theil: Die Steinkorallen. Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Asteraeaceen und Fungiaceen. 1-100, pls. 1-10. Gutmann, Berlin. [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Red Sea

type locality contained in Red Sea [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Dipsastraea laxa (Klunzinger, 1879). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758235 on 2024-11-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-03-16 01:08:52Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2021-04-28 05:39:27Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-07-20 08:47:41Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Orbicella laxa Klunzinger, 1879) Klunzinger CB. (1879). Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres, 3. Theil: Die Steinkorallen. Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Asteraeaceen und Fungiaceen. 1-100, pls. 1-10. Gutmann, Berlin. [details]

additional source Huang D, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Budd AF (2014) Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355. [details]

additional source Khalil HM, Fathy MS, Al Sawy SM. (2021). Quaternary corals (Scleractinia: Merulinidae) from the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast. <em>Geological Journal.</em> , available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gj.4145?af=R [details]

new combination reference Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Nontype (of Favia laxa (Klunzinger, 1879)) WAM 361-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia laxa (Klunzinger, 1879)) WAM 430-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia laxa (Klunzinger, 1879)) WAM 778-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]

Nontype (of Favia laxa (Klunzinger, 1879)) WAM 884-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]

From editor or global species database

Biology zooxanthellate [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	knob coral [from synonym]	[details]

To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Orbicella laxa Klunzinger, 1879)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (84 publications) (from synonym Favia laxa (Klunzinger, 1879))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dipsastraea laxa)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Orbicella laxa Klunzinger, 1879)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Favia laxa (Klunzinger, 1879))
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (5 records)