WoRMS taxon details
Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834
AphiaID: 206621
AphiaID: 206621
| 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 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [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] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Platygyra acuta Veron, 2002 Species Platygyra carnosus Veron, 2002 Species Platygyra contorta Veron, 1990 Species Platygyra crosslandi Species Platygyra daedalea (Ellis & Solander, 1786) Species Platygyra lamellina (Ehrenberg, 1834) Species Platygyra pini Chevalier, 1975 Species Platygyra rustica (Dana, 1846) Species Platygyra ryukyuensis Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935 Species Platygyra sinensis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Species Platygyra verweyi Wijsman-Best, 1976 Species Platygyra yaeyamaensis (Eguchi & Shirai, 1977) Species Platygyra astreiformis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) accepted as Platygyra daedalea (Ellis & Solander, 1786) Species Platygyra zelli Veron, Pichon & Best, 1977 accepted as Australogyra zelli (Veron, Pichon & Best, 1977) | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Bradypontius pichoni Stock, 1966 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colonies are massive, either flat or dome-shaped. Corallites are rarely cerioid, commonly meandroid. Paliform lobes are not developed, columellae seldom form centres and are a continuous tangle of spines. Polyps are usually extended only at night (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] Remark: Type species: Platygyra labyrinthica Ehrenberg, 1834 from the Red Sea (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206621 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206621 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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