African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Psammocora gonagra Kluzinger, 1879

WoRMS name details

Psammocora gonagra Kluzinger, 1879

AphiaID

207264 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207264)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted Name

Psammocora contigua (Esper, 1794)

Rank

Species

Parent

Psammocora Dana, 1846

Original name

Psammocora gonagra Kluzinger, 1879

Environment

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

Original description

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 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Psammocora gonagra Kluzinger, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207264 on 2025-04-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-01-31 16:37:49Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2013-02-05 17:27:31Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-07-19 08:14:13Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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Sources (9)
Documented distribution (6)

Nomenclature

original description 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]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1976). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia. Part I. Families Thamnasteriidae, Astroceoniidae, Pocilloporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series. 1: 1-86. [details]

Other

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

additional source Hoffmeister, J.E. (1925). Some corals from America Samoa and the Fiji Islands. Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 22: 1-90, pls. 1-23.
page(s): 44 [details]

additional source Vaughan TW. (1918). Some shallow-water corals from Murray Island (Australia), Cocos-Keeling Island, and Fanning Island. Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 9 (213): 49-234, pls. 20-93. [details]

additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan. 42: 379-403.
page(s): 397 [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): 89, 100 [details]

additional source Scheer G (1967). Korallen von den Sarso-Inseln im Roten Meer. Senckenbergiana Biologica 48: 421-436. [details]

additional source Boshoff, P.H. (1981). An annotated checklist of Southern Africa Scleractinia. Oceanographic Research Institute Investigational Report, Durban. 49: 1-45.
page(s): 16-17 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality