WoRMS taxon details
Fungia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
AphiaID: 207343
AphiaID: 207343
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Fungiidae (Family) > Fungia (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (junior synonym, changed spelling) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Danafungia horrida (Dana, 1846) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Fungia Lamarck, 1801 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Milne Edwards, H. & J. Haime, 1851. Monographie des polypiers fossiles des terrains palaeozoïques, précédée d'un tableau général de la classification des polypes. Archs Mus. Hist. Nat. 5 : 1-502. [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] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Fungia danai var. vitiensis Döderlein, 1902 accepted as Danafungia scruposa (Klunzinger, 1879) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Corals are circular, up to 300 mm in diameter, not heavily calcified. Septal teeth are very prominent. Costae are compact, with branching spines of different sizes on different orders. The undersurface has pits between the costae. Colour: Usually brown, sometimes mottled. Abundance: Common. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details] Type locality: Manilla, Philippines [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207343 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Fungia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207343 on 2013-05-18 | ||||||||||||||
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