WoRMS taxon details
Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 135209
AphiaID: 135209
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Oculinidae (Family) > Madrepora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Amphelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 Amphihelia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 Madrepora Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Madrepora Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Amphihelia moresbyi Alcock, 1898 Cyathohelia formosa Alcock, 1898 Lophohelia investigatoris Alcock, 1898 Lophohelia tenuis Moseley, 1881 Madrepora alcocki Faustino, 1927 Madrepora candida (Moseley, 1881) Madrepora kauaiensis Vaughan, 1907 Madrepora tenuis (Moseley, 1881) Madrepora venusta Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850 Madrepora vitiae Squires & Keyes, 1967 | ||||||||||
| 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] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 1984. New records of ahermatypic corals (Scleractinia) from the Hawaiian and Line Islands. Occasional papers of the Bishop Musem, 25(10): 1-30. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., and N.B. Keller, 1993. New taxa and distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 103(5): 213-292, 13 pls. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. Stylasteridae, Scleractinia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., W.C. Jaap, and J.C. Lang. 2009. Scleractinia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 333–347 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge http://www.lophelia.org/online-appendices [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Rec. of West. Austr. Mus. 18(4): 361-417, 9 pls. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 1991. A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Galápagos and Cocos Islands. Smith. Cont. Zool. 504: 32 pp., 12 pls. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2004. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia of Australia. Rec. Australian Mus., 56(3): 259-329, 12 pls. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-Water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Mem. Mus. natl. Hist. nat., Paris, 180: 31-167. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1982. Antarctic and Subantarctic Scleractinia. Antarctic Research Series 34: 1-74. [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1979. The deep-water Scleractinia of the Caribbean and adjacent waters. Stud. Fauna Curacao, 57 (180): 341 pp. [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., and Zibrowius, H., 1997. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. Mem. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. 172: 27-243, including 29 pls. (=MUSORSTOM Rep. 16). [details] redescription: Zibrowius, H. 1980, Les Scleractiniares de la Mediterranee et de l Atlantique nord-oriental. Mem. Inst. ocean. , Monaco, 11: 284 pp. [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1994. Scleractinia of the Temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 557:150 pp., 42 plates, 3 figs. [details] from synonym: S.D.Cairns, B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land, update Oct. 2007, as a contribution to 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] ecology source: Roberts, J.M., A. Wheeler, A. Freiwald, and S.D. Cairns, 2009. Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. 334 pp. [details] context source (Deepsea): Cairns, Stephen (look up in IMIS) [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Forma Madrepora oculata f. alpha Cairns, 1991 Forma Madrepora oculata f. beta Cairns, 1991 Forma Madrepora oculata f. galapagensis Vaughan, 1906 Forma Madrepora oculata f. gamma Cairns, 1991 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Central Pacific Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Pacific (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 28 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 55-1950 m [details] Distribution: cosmopolitan [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Habitat: shelf to slope [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135209 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S.; Hoeksema, B. (2013). Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135209 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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