WoRMS taxon details
Coscinaraea columna (Dana, 1846)
AphiaID: 207256
AphiaID: 207256
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Coscinaraeidae (Family) > Coscinaraea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Coscinaraea Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1848 | |||||||||||||
| 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] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. Stylasteridae, Scleractinia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mozambique [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 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 encrusting or massive, sometimes hillocky. Columellae are compacted pinnules set well below the septo-costae. Colour: grey or bright yellow. Abundance: seldom common but occurs in a wide range of shallow-water habitats (Veron, 1986). Tropical Indo-Pacific in Kalk (1958). [details] Type locality: Type locality: Fiji (Veron, 1986). Family 'Siderasteriidae' and Edw. & Haime as authors in Kalk (1958). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207256 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Coscinaraea columna (Dana, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207256 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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