WoRMS taxon details
Echinopora lamellosa (Esper, 1795)
AphiaID: 207421
AphiaID: 207421
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Echinopora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Edited by Database Management Team | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Echinopora Lamarck, 1816 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Echinopora concinna Verrill, 1901 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] basis of record: Veron, J.E.N., Pichon, M. & Wijsman-Best, M. 1977. Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph series 3: 1–233. [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] from synonym: Sheppard, C.R.C. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. Atoll Research Bulletin Nr 307 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Chagos [details] East Africa [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Jamescookina moluccensis Kim I.H., 2007 (symbiotic: unspecified type)
Pionomolgus moluccensis Kim I.H., 2007 (symbiotic: unspecified type) Pionomolgus gallicolus Dojiri & Grygier, 1990 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Pteropontius pediculus Stock, 1966 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Xarifia dispar Humes, 1962 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Xarifia echinoporae Humes & Dojiri, 1982 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Anchimolgus tridentatus Kim I.H., 2003 (symbiotic: unspecified type) Jamescookina palmata Kim I.H., 2003 (symbiotic: unspecified type) Jamescookina exigua Kim I.H., 2003 (symbiotic: unspecified type) Asteropontius caledoniensis Kim I.H., 2003 (symbiotic: unspecified type) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (10 nucleotides; 3 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Colonies are usually thin leaves. Calices are 3 to 6 mm in diameter, and in general are spaced about a corallite diameter apart. Costae run between septa and are beaded. The primary septa are markedly exsert, and bear paliform lobes. This is a common species on steep Red Sea reef slopes, generally below 15 m deep, and in lagoons of Indian Ocean atolls at depths to 25 m. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>) Colonies consist of thin laminae arranged in whorls or tiers or, rarely, forming tubes. Corallites are relatively thin-walled and have calices 2.5-4.0 mm in diameter. Columellae are small and compact, and paliform lobes are well developed. Colour: Amber, pale to dark brown or greenish, often with darker-brown or green calices. Abundance: common and may be dominant in shallow-water habitats with flat substrates. (Veron, 1986 <57>) Resembles E. gemmacea, but corallites smaller (usually 4-6 mm across). Forms plates which may be encrusting or contorted and foliose; these are thinner (<1 cm thick), more fragile, unbranched and often with free edges. Colonies dominate reef slopes. Habitat: diverse. (Richmond, 1997) [details] Remark: Original combination in Sheppard 1998 <308>. Type locality: unrecorded (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207421 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Echinopora lamellosa (Esper, 1795). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207421 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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