WoRMS taxon details
Porites porites Pallas
AphiaID: 207238
AphiaID: 207238
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Poritidae (Family) > Porites (Genus) |
| 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] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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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) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aruba [details] Belize [details] Bermuda [details] Bonaire [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Curaçao [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] | ||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Habitat: rocks (Kalk, 1959). [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207238 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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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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