| Status | | accepted |
Record status | | Edited by Database Management Team |
| Rank | | Species |
| Parent | | Porites |
| Sources | |
basis of record: Kalk, M. (1959). A general ecological survey of some shores in northern Mozambique. Revta Biol., Lisb. 2: 1-24. (look up in IMIS) [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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Vernacular Names | | | Language | Name | | |
English |
hump coral |
[details] |
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Direct child taxa [show all] | | Forma Porites porites f. divaricata Lesueur, 1820
Forma Porites porites f. furcata Lamarck, 1816
Forma Porites porites f. porites (Pallas, 1766)
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| Environment | | marine, terrestrial |
| Distribution | | Aruba [details]
Belize [details]
Bermuda [details]
Bonaire [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Cayman Islands [details]
Colombia [details]
Costa Rica [details]
Cuba [details]
CuraƧao [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Hispaniola [details]
Honduras [details]
Jamaica [details]
Mexico [details]
Mozambique [details]
Nicaragua [details]
Panama [details]
Puerto Rico [details]
Venezuela [details]
West Africa [details]
West Atlantic [details]
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| Links | | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 32 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
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| Notes | |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details]
Habitat: rocks (Kalk, 1959). [details]
Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details]
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| LSID | | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207238 |
Taxonomic Edit history | |
| Date | action | by |
| 2000-09-28 07:24:50Z | created | Garcia, Maria |
| 2008-01-16 10:35:54Z | changed | van der Land, Jacob |
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| | | Citation: WoRMS (2013). Porites porites Pallas. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207238 on 2013-05-24 |
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