WoRMS taxon details
Madrepora Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 135123
AphiaID: 135123
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Oculinidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758 (type by subsequent designation) | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Oculinidae Gray, 1847 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Amphelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 Amphihelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 Neohelia Moseley, 1881 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema, and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A. F. Budd, B. Lathuiliere, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski, and K. G. Johnson (2010). Corallosphere, available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 2000. A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Stud. Nat. Hist. Carib. Reg. 75: 321 pp., 215 figs. [details] from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Species Madrepora arbuscula (Moseley, 1881) Species Madrepora carolina (Pourtalès, 1871) Species Madrepora dichotoma Rehberg, 1891 Species Madrepora favus Forskål, 1775 Species Madrepora mexicana Rehberg, 1891 Species Madrepora minutiseptum Cairns & Zibrowius, 1997 Species Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758
Species Madrepora pelewensis Rehberg, 1891 Species Madrepora philippinensis Rehberg, 1891 Species Madrepora porcellana (Moseley, 1881) Species Madrepora repens Rehberg, 1891 Species Madrepora rudis Rehberg, 1891 Species Madrepora securis Dana, 1846 Species Madrepora subtilis Klunzinger, 1879 Species Madrepora trochiformis Pallas, 1766 † Species Madrepora acetabulum Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Acetabularia acetabulum (Linnaeus) P.C.Silva, 1952 Species Madrepora alcocki Faustino, 1927 accepted as Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758 Species Madrepora angulosa Pallas, 1766 accepted as Mussa angulosa (Pallas, 1766) Species Madrepora anthophyllum Duchassaing, 1850 accepted as Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) cyathus (Ellis & Solander, 1786) Species Madrepora areolata Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Manicina areolata (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Madrepora axillaris Ellis & Solander, 1786 accepted as Cyathelia axillaris (Ellis & Solander, 1786) Species Madrepora caespitosa Linnaeus, 1767 accepted as Cladocora caespitosa (Linnaeus, 1767) Species Madrepora calendula Hermann, 1782 accepted as Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) cyathus (Ellis & Solander, 1786) Species Madrepora candida (Moseley, 1881) accepted as Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758 Species Madrepora cochleata Spengler, 1781 accepted as Heteropsammia cochleata (Spengler, 1781) Species Madrepora crater Pallas, 1766 accepted as Turbinaria crater (Pallas) Species Madrepora crustacea Pallas, 1766 accepted as Podabacia crustacea (Pallas, 1766) Species Madrepora cyathus Ellis & Solander, 1786 accepted as Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) cyathus (Ellis & Solander, 1786) Species Madrepora dianthus Esper, 1794 accepted as Desmophyllum dianthus (Esper, 1794) Species Madrepora echinata Pallas, 1766 accepted as Ctenactis echinata (Pallas, 1766) Species Madrepora fastigiata Pallas, 1766 accepted as Eusmilia fastigiata (Pallas, 1766) Species Madrepora fragum Esper, 1795 accepted as Favia fragum (Esper, 1795) Species Madrepora fungites Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Fungia fungites (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Madrepora galapagensis Vaughan, 1906 accepted as Madrepora oculata f. galapagensis Vaughan, 1906 Species Madrepora gemmascens Esper, 1794 accepted as Stylaster gemmascens (Esper, 1794) Species Madrepora hirtella Pallas, 1776 accepted as Sclerhelia hirtella (Pallas, 1766) Species Madrepora kauaiensis Vaughan, 1907 accepted as Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758 Species Madrepora labyrinthiformis Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Diploria labyrinthiformis (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Madrepora lacera Pallas, 1766 accepted as Scolymia lacera (Pallas, 1766) Species Madrepora limax Esper, 1797 accepted as Herpolitha limax (Esper, 1797) Species Madrepora limax Houttuyn, 1772 accepted as Polyphyllia talpina (Lamarck, 1801) Species Madrepora pertusa Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Madrepora pileus (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Halomitra pileus (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Madrepora poculata Ellis & Solander, 1786 accepted as Astrangia poculata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) Species Madrepora prolifera Pallas, 1766 accepted as Lophelia pertusa (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Madrepora ramea Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Dendrophyllia ramea (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Madrepora roseus Pallas, 1766 accepted as Stylaster roseus (Pallas, 1766) Species Madrepora sinuosa Ellis & Solander, 1786 accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander) Species Madrepora smithi Brook, 1893 accepted as Acropora robusta (Dana, 1846) Species Madrepora talpa Houttuyn, 1772 accepted as Herpolitha limax (Esper, 1797) Species Madrepora tenuis (Moseley, 1881) accepted as Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758 Species Madrepora teres Verrill, 1866 accepted as Acropora teres (Verrill, 1866) Species Madrepora trilinguis Boddaert, 1768 accepted as Herpolitha limax (Esper, 1797) Species Madrepora venusta Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850 accepted as Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758 Species Madrepora virginea Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Oculina diffusa Lamarck, 1816 Species Madrepora vitiae Squires & Keyes, 1967 accepted as Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | Published in AlgaeBase  To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 50-1950 m [details] Description: Genus of non-reef building scleractinians; cosmopolitan. Colonial, dendroid, with more or less alternate budding. Pali are absent, columellae are weakly developed (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] Fossil range: Paleocene to Recent [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135123 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B.; Cairns, S. (2013). Madrepora Linnaeus, 1758. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135123 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||||||||
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