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Scleractinia taxon details

Stylocoeniella guentheri (Bassett-Smith, 1890)

206948  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206948)

accepted
Species
Stylophora guentheri Bassett-Smith, 1890 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Stylophora guentheri Bassett-Smith, 1890) Bassett-Smith, P.W. (1890). Report on the corals from Tizard and Macclesfield Banks, China Sea. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History,.</em> 6(35): 353-374, 443-458, pls. 12-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008694050 [details]   
Note South China Sea (Veron, 1986).  
From other sources
Type locality South China Sea (Veron, 1986). [details]
Description Colonies are small, rarely over 30 cm across, with calices about 1 mm in diameter. The two cycles of 6 septa each are...  
Description Colonies are small, rarely over 30 cm across, with calices about 1 mm in diameter. The two cycles of 6 septa each are markedly different in size. The pillar associated with each calice are also well developed and conspicuous. These readily distinguish this coral from other encrusting species in the region, and being styliform, are appreciably different also to the calical hoods of the encrusting Stylophora species with which it is most likely to be confused. Mostly between 5 and 50 m deep on reef slopes. It is found equally on clear water, exposed reefs and on back reef slopes, in lagoonal and turbid habitats. Its living colour may be green or yellowish brown. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>)

Calices are about 0.8 mm in diameter and are flush with the coenosteum. Septa are in two very unequal cycles. Colour: Dark or pale greenish-brown, with white polyps. Abundance: usually uncommon but more abundant than S. armata. Large colonies (greater than 0.5 m in diameter) are found in higher latitudes only. (Veron, 1986. <57>)

Forms encrusting, columnar or massive colonies with club-shaped knobs and sunken corallites (0.6-1 mm across). Colour: usually pale brown or darker. Habitat: cooler, often turbid shallow reefs. (Richmond, 1997) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Stylocoeniella guentheri (Bassett-Smith, 1890). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206948 on 2024-05-10
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1996-10-24 16:07:55Z
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2000-07-18 15:57:33Z
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2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
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2014-04-20 09:02:27Z
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2014-04-20 21:34:03Z
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2022-05-21 06:40:29Z
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original description  (of Stylophora guentheri Bassett-Smith, 1890) Bassett-Smith, P.W. (1890). Report on the corals from Tizard and Macclesfield Banks, China Sea. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History,.</em> 6(35): 353-374, 443-458, pls. 12-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008694050 [details]   

context source (HKRMS) Ang, P. O.; McCorry, D.; Si, C. C. L. (2003). Establishing a reference collection and field guides for Hong Kong scleractinian coral. <em>Final report submitted to the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, The Hong Kong SAR Government.</em>  [details]   

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

basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em>  [details]   

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

additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 459: 13-46.
page(s): 19 [details]   

additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137.
page(s): 127 [details]   

additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

additional source Benzoni, F., Pichon, M. 2004. Stylocoeniella nikei n. sp., a new zooxanthellate coral from the Pacific (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia). Italian Journal of Zoology 71: 147-151.
page(s): 147, 150, 151 [details]   

additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em>  [details]   

additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V.; Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> pp. 59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available 

additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33.
page(s): 27 [details]   

additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555
page(s): 34, 35 [details]   

additional source Pillai CSG. (1972). Stony corals of the seas around India. <em>Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Corals and Coral Reefs, 1969. Marine Biological Association of India Symposium.</em> 5: 191-216.
page(s): 197 [details]   

additional source Randall RH, Myers RF. (1983). The corals. Guide to the Coastal Resources of Guam: Vol. 2. <em>University of Guam Press, Guam, pp. 128.</em>  [details]   

additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume II: Families Astrocoeniidae, Pocilloporidae, Euphyllidae, Oculinidae, Meandrinidae, Siderastreidae, Agariciidae, Fungiidae, Rhizangiidae, Pectiniidae, Merulinidae, Dendrophylliidae, Caryophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 2, pp. 429.
page(s): 6-7 [details]   

additional source Sheppard, C. R. C. (1985). Fringing reefs in the southern region, Jeddah to Jizan. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 37-58
page(s): 45 [details]   

additional source Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 61, 65, 112 [details]   

additional source Wallace, C. C.; Fellegara, I.; Muir, P. R.; Harrison, P. L. (2009). The scleractinian corals of Moreton Bay, eastern Australia: high latitude, marginal assemblages with increasing species richness. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 54, 2
page(s): 11 [details]   

redescription Wells JW. (1966). Notes on Indo-Pacific scleractinian corals, Part 4: A second species of Stylocoeniella. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 20 (2): 203-205. [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Nontype NMSR 8990, geounit French Polynesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 155-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 191-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 193-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 215-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 248-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 249-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 406-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 422-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 426-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 452-81 [details]
Nontype WAM 47-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 52-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 566-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 567-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 569-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 570-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 571-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 729-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 73-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 742-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 761-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 766-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 803-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 828-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 925-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Syntype (of Stylophora guentheri Bassett-Smith, 1890) BMNH, geounit Vietnamese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]

From other sources
Description Colonies are small, rarely over 30 cm across, with calices about 1 mm in diameter. The two cycles of 6 septa each are markedly different in size. The pillar associated with each calice are also well developed and conspicuous. These readily distinguish this coral from other encrusting species in the region, and being styliform, are appreciably different also to the calical hoods of the encrusting Stylophora species with which it is most likely to be confused. Mostly between 5 and 50 m deep on reef slopes. It is found equally on clear water, exposed reefs and on back reef slopes, in lagoonal and turbid habitats. Its living colour may be green or yellowish brown. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>)

Calices are about 0.8 mm in diameter and are flush with the coenosteum. Septa are in two very unequal cycles. Colour: Dark or pale greenish-brown, with white polyps. Abundance: usually uncommon but more abundant than S. armata. Large colonies (greater than 0.5 m in diameter) are found in higher latitudes only. (Veron, 1986. <57>)

Forms encrusting, columnar or massive colonies with club-shaped knobs and sunken corallites (0.6-1 mm across). Colour: usually pale brown or darker. Habitat: cooler, often turbid shallow reefs. (Richmond, 1997) [details]

Type locality South China Sea (Veron, 1986). [details]
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English thorn coral  [details]
Japanese ムカシサンゴ  [details]