WoRMS taxon details
Pavona Lamarck, 1801
AphiaID: 206614
AphiaID: 206614
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Agariciidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Agariciidae Gray, 1847 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Pavonia Lamarck (unjustified emendation for Pavona Lamarck, 1801) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Pavona bipartita Nemenzo, 1980 Species Pavona cactus (Forskal, 1775) Species Pavona chiriquiensis Glyn, Mate & Stemann, 2001 Species Pavona clavus (Dana, 1846) Species Pavona clivosa Verrill Species Pavona danai Milne Edwards & Haime Species Pavona decussata (Dana, 1846) Species Pavona diffluens (Lamarck) Species Pavona diminuta Veron Species Pavona divaricata Lamarck, 1816 Species Pavona duerdeni Sheer & Pillai Species Pavona explanulata (Lamarck, 1816) Species Pavona frondifera Lamarck Species Pavona gigantea Verrill, 1869 Species Pavona lata Dana Species Pavona liliacea (Klunz) Species Pavona maldivensis (Gardiner, 1905) Species Pavona minor Brüggemann Species Pavona minuta Wells, 1956 Species Pavona varians Verrill, 1864 Species Pavona venosa (Ehrenberg, 1834) Species Pavona xarifae Scheer & Pillai, 1974 Species Pavona yabei Species Pavona cristata Ellis & Solander accepted as Pavona cactus (Forskal, 1775) Species Pavona gardineri (Horst) accepted as Leptoseris gardineri Horst Species Pavona obtusata Quelsh accepted as Pavona venosa (Ehrenberg, 1834) Species Pavona pollicata Wells accepted as Pavona maldivensis (Gardiner, 1905) Species Pavona praetorta (Dana) accepted as Pavona cactus (Forskal, 1775) Species Pavona repens Brüggemann accepted as Pavona varians Verrill, 1864 Species Pavona seriata Brüggemann accepted as Pavona decussata (Dana, 1846) Species Pavona venusta accepted as Pavona cactus (Forskal, 1775) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colonies are massive, laminar or foliaceous, the latter usually being bifacial. Corallites have poorly defined walls. They are small shallow depressions, usually with a central columella, sometimes separated by ridges. Corallites are interconnected by prominent septo-costae. Except for P. explanulata, polyps are extended only at night (Veron (1986)). Colonies may be foliaceous or globular and often dominate coral communities. Typically with prominent septo-costae connecting adjacent corallites. Polyps usually extended at night (Richmond, 1997). [details] Remark: Type species: Madrepora cristata Ellis & Solander, 1786 from an unknown locality (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206614 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Pavona Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206614 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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