WoRMS taxon details
Scolymia vitiensis Brueggemann, 1877
AphiaID: 207395
AphiaID: 207395
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Mussidae (Family) > Mussinae (Subfamily) > Scolymia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Scolymia Haime, 1852 | |||||||||||||
| 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] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Reunion [details] South Africa (country) [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: This is a mussid coral, usually solitary though older specimens commonly show bi or tri-centric calices. Single calice specimens, which are typical, may reach 25 cm tall and 8-10 cm diameter. Septa have large teeth and are sharp. Septa do not have the very enlarged lobes and the living coral does not have the transparent tissue found in Cynarina, the other solitary mussid. There is probably only one Indian Ocean species in this genus. The genus is much more common in the Caribbean. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>) There is a wide latitudinal variation in this species. In temperate localities it is usually solitary, saucer-shaped and less than 60 mm in diameter. In the tropics it becomes colonial and septo-costae slope up from the centre to an indistinct wall, then down to the periphery. Secondary centres may occur near the colony centre and also around the periphery. Septo-costae are sturdy with large blunt teeth. Colour: usually dark green. Abundance: seldom common but occurs in a wide range of environments. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details] Distribution: Central Indo-Pacific to Japan [details] Spelling: Parascolymia vitiensis in Faure (1977). Type locality: Fiji (Veron, 1986) [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207395 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Scolymia vitiensis Brueggemann, 1877. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207395 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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