WoRMS taxon details
Tubipora musica Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 207409
AphiaID: 207409
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Alcyonacea (Order) > Stolonifera (Suborder) > Tubiporidae (Family) > Tubipora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Tubipora Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Tubipora purpurea Pallas, 1766 (synonym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] additional source: L.P. van Ofwegen, S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land (eds), 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Pallas, P.S. (1766) Elenchus zoophytorum. Van Cleef, Hagae-Comitum, pp. 1-451, available online at http://www.gdz-cms.de/no_cache/en/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=222048 page(s): 339 [details] [view taxon] [full text] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Eritrea [details] Indo-Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Hemicyclops perinsignis Humes, 1973 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Hippomolgus cognatus Humes & Ho, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Hippomolgus latipes Humes & Ho, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lichomolgus conjunctus Humes & Ho, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lichomolgus organicus Humes & Ho, 1967 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Plesiomolgus organicus (Humes & Ho, 1967) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Entomopsyllus stocki Kim I.H., 2004 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Asterocheres tubiporae Kim I.H., 2004 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Plesiomolgus conjunctus (Humes & Ho, 1967) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Tubiporicola inflatus Kim I.H., 2009 (symbiotic: unspecified type) Eupolymniphilus brevicaudatus Kim I.H., 2009 (symbiotic: unspecified type) Asterocheres nudicoxus Kim I.H., 2010 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (267 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: Red Organ pipe coral. This is not a true coral, but has a limestone skeleton. It is made up of numerous vertical "pipes" connected with lateral plates, all of which remain bright red when cleaned. The living coral is usually inconspicuous, because the skeleton is covered by the extended polyps, which are a dull grey. Polyps have eight feathery tentacles. Fragments are conspicuous on beaches due to their red colouration against the while coral sand. It is used medicinally in some Arabian countries as a cure against dysentery. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>) [details] Habitat: coastal [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207409 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Tubipora musica Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207409 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||||||||
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