WoRMS taxon details
Sporadopora dichotoma (Moseley, 1876)
AphiaID: 174791
AphiaID: 174791
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Stylasteridae (Family) > Sporadopora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Sporadopora Moseley, 1879 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Polypora dichotoma Moseley, 1876 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Cnidaria Antarctic checklist (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema, and J.Van Der Land, 1999. Appendix: List of extant stony corals. Atoll Research Bulletin 459: 13-46. [details] additional source: S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land, 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1983. A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. Bull. mar. Sci. 33 2: 427-508. [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1983. Antarctic and subantarctic Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). In: Biology of the Antarctic Seas, XIII. Antarct. Res. Ser. 38 2: 61-164. [details] context source (Deepsea): Cairns, Stephen (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Southern Ocean [details] West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: calcareous colonies, no free medusae [details] Depth range: 250-1498 m [details] Taxonomic Remark: Originally described in the bryozoan genus Polypora. [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:174791 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Sporadopora dichotoma (Moseley, 1876). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=174791 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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