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Echinopora fruticulosa Klunzinger, 1879 
AphiaID: 207422

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
Sources  basis of record: Sheppard, C.R.C. (1998). Corals of the Indian Ocean: a taxonomic and distribution database for coral reef ecologists [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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English hedgehog coral  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Indo-Pacific [details]
Red Sea [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To IUCN Red List
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: zooxanthellate [details]

Description: This is an entirely ramose species. While most members of the species develop ramose projections, this species is entirely ramose, with a minimum of encrusting base. Colonies form rounded bushes up to 1.5 m tall and 2 m diameter, though most are smaller. Corallites occur all around the branches. Costae are lightly spined, or may be ridges entirely devoid of spines. Primary septa bear tall, thin paliform lobes, which also differs from the condition in E. gemmacea. This is a widespread and conspicuous species, but is not very common. It is found on sheltered fringing reefs on gentle gradients, commonly near sandy patches between 4 and 20 m deep. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>) [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207422
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1998-06-02 12:05:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1998-06-03 09:30:54Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Echinopora fruticulosa Klunzinger, 1879. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207422 on 2013-05-21
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