Scleractinia name details
Duncania capensis Gardiner, 1905
509248 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:509248)
unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Species
Duncania Pourtalès, 1874 accepted as Gardineria Vaughan, 1907
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Gardiner, J.S. (1905). The turbinolid corals of South Africa, with notes on their anatomy and variation. <em>Marine Investigations in South Africa.</em> 3(4): 97-129, pls. 1-3. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Duncania capensis Gardiner, 1905. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=509248 on 2025-05-02
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Gardiner, J.S. (1905). The turbinolid corals of South Africa, with notes on their anatomy and variation. <em>Marine Investigations in South Africa.</em> 3(4): 97-129, pls. 1-3. [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D. (2009-2017). On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. <em>In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats.</em> Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [details]
additional source Vaughan TW. (1907). Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. <em>US National Museum Bulletin.</em> 59 (9): 1-427., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10230
page(s): 65, 416, 418 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D. (2009-2017). On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. <em>In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats.</em> Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [details]
additional source Vaughan TW. (1907). Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. <em>US National Museum Bulletin.</em> 59 (9): 1-427., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10230
page(s): 65, 416, 418 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unknown type BMNH, geounit South African Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Synonymy The new synonymy with Caryophyllia capensis Gardiner, 1905 by Filander et al. (2021) is an error (Filander et al. personal communication, 20 Novermber 2021). [details]
