WoRMS taxon details
Acropora cuneata (Dana, 1846)
AphiaID: 206997
AphiaID: 206997
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Acroporidae (Family) > Acropora (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Isopora cuneata (Dana, 1846) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Acropora Oken, 1815 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] additional source: Wallace, C.C., 1999. Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. : i-xviii, 1-421. [details] additional source: Wallace CC, Chen CA, Fukami H, Muir PR (2007) Recognition of separate genera within Acropora based on new morphological, reproductive and genetic evidence from Acropora togianensis, and elevation of the subgenus Isopora Studer, 1878 to genus (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniidae; Acroporidae). Coral Reefs 26: 231–239. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] East Africa [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Colonies are solid plates or short flattened branches, without axial corallites. Colour: pale cream or brown. Abundance: common, but much less common than A. palifera. Occurs in all reef environments especially upper reef slopes and reef flats (Veron, 1986). [details] Type locality: Type locality: Fiji (Veron, 1986). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206997 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Acropora cuneata (Dana, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206997 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||||||||
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