WoRMS taxon details
Acropora palifera (Lamarck, 1816)
AphiaID: 207037
AphiaID: 207037
| 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 palifera (Lamarck, 1816) | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Isopora Studer, 1878 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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 (1997) New species and new records of recently described species of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) from Indonesia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120: 27-50. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] East Africa [details] Indo-Pacific [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Ecphysarion lobophorum (Humes & Ho, 1968) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Ecphysarion spinulatum Humes, 1993 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lichomolgus arcuatipes Humes & Ho, 1968 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Schedomolgus exiliculus Humes, 1993 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Unicispina latigenitalis Humes, 1993 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Xarifia anomala Humes & Ho, 1968 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Xarifia exuta Humes & Dojiri, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Xarifia exuta Humes & Dojiri, 1982 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Xarifia guttulifera Humes & Dojiri, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Xarifia guttulifera Humes & Dojiri, 1982 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Xarifia mucronata Humes & Dojiri, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Xarifia mucronata Humes & Dojiri, 1982 (parasitic: endoparasitic) Schedomolgus arcuatipes (Humes & Ho, 1968) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: The corallum of this species may be encrusting, massive, groups of ridges or may consist of stubby branches. The form taken depends on the degree of exposure - the encrusting forms are found in shallow water on seaward reefs of oceanic atolls in the Indian Ocean, for example, while progressively more fragile forms occur in progressively more sheltered water. Corallites have the appearance of pale beads. There is no single or larger axial corallite on the ends of those coralla which have branches. Acropora cuneata which is very similar has been reported from two locations in the Indian Ocean (Sheppard, 1998). Colonies are encrusting plates, ridges or columns, without axial corallites. Colour: pale cream or brown. Abundance: Occurs in all reef environments (Veron, 1986). [details] Type locality: Type locality: "Southern Ocean" (Veron, 1986) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207037 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Acropora palifera (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207037 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||||||||
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