WoRMS taxon details
Echinopora Lamarck, 1816
AphiaID: 205519
AphiaID: 205519
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Merulinidae Verrill, 1865 | |||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Echinopora ashmorensis Veron, 1990 Species Echinopora forskaliana (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1850) Species Echinopora fruticulosa Klunzinger, 1879 Species Echinopora gemmacea (Lamarck, 1816) Species Echinopora hirsutissima Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849 Species Echinopora horrida Dana, 1846 Species Echinopora irregularis Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2002 Species Echinopora lamellosa (Esper, 1795) Species Echinopora mammiformis (Nemenzo, 1959) Species Echinopora pacificus Veron, 1990 Species Echinopora pellucida Rehberg, 1891 Species Echinopora robusta Veron, 2002 Species Echinopora spinulosa Brüggemann Species Echinopora striatula Studer, 1878 Species Echinopora taylorae Veron, 2002 Species Echinopora tiranensis Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2000 Species Echinopora carduus Klunzinger, 1879 accepted as Echinopora gemmacea (Lamarck, 1816) Species Echinopora concinna Verrill, 1901 accepted as Echinopora lamellosa (Esper, 1795) | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Asteropontius angulatus Kim I.H., 2010 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colonies are massive, arborescent or foliaceous or mixtures of these forms. Corallites are plocoid with calices up to 5 mm in diameter. Septa are exsert and irregular. Columellae are usually prominent. Costae are usually restricted to the corallite wall. The coenosteum is granulated (except E. mammiformis). Polyps are extended only at night (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] Remark: Type species: Echinopora rosularia Lamarck, 1816 from the "Indian Ocean" (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205519 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Echinopora Lamarck, 1816. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205519 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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