WoRMS taxon details
Montipora digitata (Dana, 1846)
AphiaID: 207185
AphiaID: 207185
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Acroporidae (Family) > Montipora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Montipora Blainville, 1830 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Montipora divaricata Brüggemann Montipora ramosa Bernard | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] basis of record: Sheppard, C.R.C. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. Atoll Research Bulletin Nr 307 [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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | East Africa (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Indo-West Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Mozambique (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Rodriguez [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (25 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 7 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Colonies are digitate or arborescent with anastomosing upright branches. Corallites are immersed and are small (especially colonies from very shallow water). Colour: pale cream or brown. Abundance: common. May be a dominant species on shallow mudflats (Veron, 1986). Digitate colonies with anastomosing branches, forming subspherical mounds over 40 cm across. Corallites slightly sunken, giving the surface a pitted appearance. Colour: uniformly light brown to pale yellow. Habitat: diverse, including shallow lagoons (Richmond, 1997). [details] Type locality: Type Locality: Fiji (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207185 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Montipora digitata (Dana, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207185 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||
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