WoRMS taxon details
Madracis Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849
AphiaID: 135125
AphiaID: 135125
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Pocilloporidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Madracis asperula Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Pocilloporidae Gray, 1842 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Axhelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 Axohelia | |||||||||||||
| 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] basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [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] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Madracis asanoi Yabe & Sugiyama, 1936 Species Madracis asperula Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 Species Madracis auretenra Locke, Weil & Coates, 2007 Species Madracis brueggemanni (Ridley, 1881) Species Madracis carmabi Vermeij, Diekmann & Bak, 2003 Species Madracis decactis (Lyman, 1859) Species Madracis formosa Wells, 1973 Species Madracis fragilis Neves & Johnsson, 2009 Species Madracis hellana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850 Species Madracis interjecta Marenzeller, 1907 Species Madracis kauaiensis Vaughan, 1907 Species Madracis kirbyi Veron & Pichon, 1976 Species Madracis myriaster (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Species Madracis pharensis (Heller, 1868) Species Madracis profunda Zibrowius, 1980 Species Madracis senaria Wells, 1974 Species Madracis mirabilis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Madracis myriaster (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Species Madracis mirabilis sensu Wells, 1973 accepted as Madracis auretenra Locke, Weil & Coates, 2007 Species Madracis palaoensis Yabe & Sugiyama, 1936 accepted as Madracis asanoi Yabe & Sugiyama, 1936 Species Madracis schrammii (Pourtalès, 1874) accepted as Madracis myriaster (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Species Madracis scotiae Gardiner, 1913 accepted as Madracis brueggemanni (Ridley, 1881) Species Madracis singularis Rehberg, 1892 accepted as Madracis kauaiensis Vaughan, 1907 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: Zooxanthellate and azooxaxnthellate [details] Depth range: 0-1220 m [details] Fossil range: Upper Cretaceous to Recent [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Type species: Type species: Madracis asperula Edwards & Haime, 1890 from Madeira (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135125 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Madracis Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135125 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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