Scleractinia name details

Madrepora fungites Linnaeus, 1758

716904  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:716904)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Vacatina (Suborder)
  8. Madreporidae (Family)
  9. Madrepora (Genus)
  10. Madrepora fungites (Species)
 unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
Note Red Sea  
Type locality Red Sea [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Madrepora fungites Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716904 on 2026-05-07
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2013-01-30 18:25:43Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2014-06-02 12:39:27Z
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2022-07-25 07:39:44Z
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Hoeksema, Bert

original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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

basis of record Hoeksema BW. (1989). Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae. <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden.</em> 254: 1-295., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149013 [details] 

additional source Esper, E.J.C. (1791). Die Pflanzenthiere in Abbildungen nach der Natur mit Farben erleuchtet, nebst Beschreibungen. <em>Raspischen Buchhandlung, Nurnberg.</em> 1: 1-320., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/50843132
page(s): 284, 285, 287, 317 [details] OpenAccess publication
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Type locality Red Sea [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (39 publications) 
To GenBank (87 nucleotides; 48 proteins) 

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