WoRMS taxon details
Cycloseris somervillei (Gardiner, 1909)
AphiaID: 207328
AphiaID: 207328
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Fungiidae (Family) > Cycloseris (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Cycloseris Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Fungia (Cycloseris) somervillei Gardiner, 1909 Fungia somervillei Gardiner, 1909 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Gardiner, J.S. 1909. The Madreporarian Corals. I. The family Fungiidae, with a revision of its genera and species and an account of their geographical distribution. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology (Ser. 2) 12: 257- 290, pls. 33-39. [details] basis of record: Hoeksema, B.W., 1989. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden 254: 1-295., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149013 [details] additional source: Gittenberger, A., Reijnen, B.T. & Hoeksema, B.W. 2011. A molecularly based phylogeny reconstruction of mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) with taxonomic consequences and evolutionary implications for life history traits. Contributions to Zoology 80: 107-132. , available online at http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/cgi/t/text/get-pdf?c=ctz;idno=8002a02 [details] from synonym: Fauré, G. (1977). Annotated checklist of the corals in the Mascarene Archipelago, Indian Ocean. Atoll Research Bulletin 203: 1-26 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Distribution | type locality: Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Corals are oval, flat, with a central dome and a flat undersurface. Primary septa are exsert on the central dome. Colour: not known. Abundance: very rare. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details] Type locality: Seychelles [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207328 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Cycloseris somervillei (Gardiner, 1909). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207328 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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