WoRMS taxon details
Oculina Lamarck, 1816
AphiaID: 135124
AphiaID: 135124
| 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 virginea Lamarck, 1816 (type by subsequent designation) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Oculinidae Gray, 1847 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] 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] | ||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Species Oculina arbuscula Agassiz, 1864 Species Oculina diffusa Lamarck, 1816 Species Oculina patagonica de Angelis, 1908 Species Oculina profunda Cairns, 1991 Species Oculina robusta Pourtalès, 1871 Species Oculina tenella Pourtalès, 1871 Species Oculina valenciennesi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850 Species Oculina varicosa Lesueur, 1821 Species Oculina virgosa Squires, 1958 Species Oculina flabelliformis lamarck, 1816 accepted as Stylaster flabelliformis (Lamarck, 1816) Species Oculina micranthus Ehrenberg, 1834 accepted as Tubastraea micranthus (Ehrenberg, 1834) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: Zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate species [details] Depth range: 0-1050 m [details] Fossil range: Cretaceous to Recent [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135124 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Oculina Lamarck, 1816. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135124 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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