WoRMS taxon details
Acropora loripes (Brook, 1892)
AphiaID: 207074
AphiaID: 207074
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Acroporidae (Family) > Acropora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| 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: S.D.Cairns, B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land, update Oct. 2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Central Indo-Pacific [details] Chagos [details] Mozambique [details] Seychelles [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (32 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Colonies have many shapes and may be bottlebrush, caespitose or plate-like. Corallites may be tabular or have thickened walls becoming tubular. Tubular axial corallites may have no radial corallites on one side. Colour: usually pale blue or brown. Axial corallites are usually whitish. Abundance: Very abundant on upper reef slopes but occurs in a wide range of environments (Veron, 1986). Habitat: rocks (Kalk, 1959). [details] Type locality: Great Barrier Reef (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207074 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Acropora loripes (Brook, 1892). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207074 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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