WoRMS taxon details
Colangia Pourtalès, 1871
267333 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267333)
accepted
Genus
Colangia immersa Pourtalès, 1871 (type by monotypy)
Species Colangia immersa Pourtalès, 1871
Species Colangia jamaicaensis Cairns, 2000
Species Colangia moseleyi (Faustino, 1927)
Species Colangia multipalifera Cairns, 2000
Species Colangia simplex Pourtalès, 1878 accepted as Gardineria simplex (Pourtalès, 1878) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Colangia jamaicaensis Cairns, 2000
Species Colangia moseleyi (Faustino, 1927)
Species Colangia multipalifera Cairns, 2000
Species Colangia simplex Pourtalès, 1878 accepted as Gardineria simplex (Pourtalès, 1878) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Pourtalès, L. F. de. (1871). Deep-sea corals. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College.</em> 2 (4): 1-93, pls. 1-8., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13636 [details]
Depth range 1-347 m
Depth range 1-347 m [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2023). World List of Scleractinia. Colangia Pourtalès, 1871. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267333 on 2023-03-31
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original description
Pourtalès, L. F. de. (1871). Deep-sea corals. <em>Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College.</em> 2 (4): 1-93, pls. 1-8., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13636 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source Smith FGW. (1954). Gulf of Mexico Madreporaria. <em>Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.).</em> 55, 291-295.
page(s): 294 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., Baron-Szabo, R., Budd, A.F., Lathuilière, B., Roniewicz, E., Stolarski, J., Johnson, K.G. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]
redescription Cairns SD. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the Western Atlantic. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 125: 1-235. [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details]
additional source Smith FGW. (1954). Gulf of Mexico Madreporaria. <em>Fisheries Bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service (U.S.).</em> 55, 291-295.
page(s): 294 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., Baron-Szabo, R., Budd, A.F., Lathuilière, B., Roniewicz, E., Stolarski, J., Johnson, K.G. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]
redescription Cairns SD. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the Western Atlantic. <em>Studies on the Fauna of Curaçao and other Caribbean Islands.</em> 125: 1-235. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Corallum reptoid, producing additional corallites extratentacularly by discrete stolons; corallites with polycyclic base; epithecate; axial edges of S1-2 smooth, those of S3-4 finely dentate; paliform lobes before penultimate cycle (P3)columella lamellar or papillose; endotheca absent. [details]Remark Known from only four species, none of them fossil (Cairns, 2000; Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997). Removed from the Rhizangiidae by Cairns and Zibrowius, 1997 [details]
From other sources
Biology azooxanthellate [details]Depth range 1-347 m [details]
