WoRMS taxon details
Porites australiensis Vaughan, 1918
AphiaID: 207249
AphiaID: 207249
| 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: 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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] East Africa [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Seychelles [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Xenomolgus varius Humes & Stock, 1972 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Colonies are hemispherical to helmet-shaped and may be very large, with a surface of irregular humps and nodules. Colour: Usually cream or yellow but may be bright colours in shallow water. Abundance: Very common and occurs with P. lutea and P. lobata on back reef margins, lagoons and fringing reefs (Veron, 1986). [details] Type locality: Type locality: Great Barrier Reef (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207249 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Porites australiensis. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207249 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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