WoRMS taxon details
Turbinaria Oken, 1815
AphiaID: 206641
AphiaID: 206641
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Dendrophylliidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Madrepora crater Pallas, 1766 (type by subsequent designation) | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Dendrophylliidae Gray, 1847 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Explanaria Lamarck, 1816 Gemmipora Blainville, 1830 Turbinacis Quenstedt, 1880 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] 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., R. Baron-Szabo, A. F. Budd, B. Lathuiliere, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski, and K. G. Johnson (2010). Corallosphere, available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 2001. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smith. Cont. Zool. 615: 75 pp., 14 pls., 3 figs. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Turbinaria bifrons Brüggemann, 1877 Species Turbinaria conspicua Bernard, 1896 Species Turbinaria crater (Pallas) Species Turbinaria crispa Rehberg, 1891 Species Turbinaria dendrophyllia Bernard Species Turbinaria frondens (Dana, 1846) Species Turbinaria globularis Bernard Species Turbinaria heronensis Wells, 1958 Species Turbinaria irregularis Bernard Species Turbinaria marmorea Rehberg, 1891 Species Turbinaria mesenterina (Lamarck, 1816) Species Turbinaria patula (Dana, 1846) Species Turbinaria peltata (Esper, 1794) Species Turbinaria porcellana Bernard Species Turbinaria radicalis Bernard, 1896 Species Turbinaria reniformis Bernard, 1896 Species Turbinaria stellulata (Lamarck, 1816) Species Turbinaria danae accepted as Turbinaria frondens (Dana, 1846) Species Turbinaria magna Bernard accepted as Turbinaria frondens (Dana, 1846) Species Turbinaria stephensoni Crossland accepted as Turbinaria stellulata (Lamarck, 1816) | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent + fossil | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Xarifia hamata Humes & Ho, 1968 (parasitic: endoparasitic)
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| Link | To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Colonies are massive, columnar, laminar or foliaceous with foliae frequently contorted. Corallites are round, immersed to tubular and have porous walls with the same structure as the surrounding coenosteum. Septa are short and neat, columellae are broad and compact. Polyps, except for those of T. peltata, are usually extended only at night (Veron, 1986). [details] Fossil range: Miocene to Recent [details] Remark: Type species: Madrepora crater Pallas, 1766 from the "East Indies" (Veron, 1986). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206641 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Turbinaria Oken, 1815. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206641 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||
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