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Platygyra pini Chevalier, 1975 
AphiaID: 207490

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) > Platygyra (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Edited by Database Management Team
Rank Species
Parent Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834
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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English lesser valley coral  [details]
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution Central Indo-Pacific [details]
Chagos [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: zooxanthellate [details]

Description: Colonies are massive to encrusting, subcerioid to submeandroid with thick walls. Septa are thin and widely spaced. There may be some development of columella centres and/ or paliform lobes. Colour: grey- or yellow-brown with green or cream centres. Abundance: usually uncommon.(Veron, 1986 <57>) [details]

Type locality: Type locality: Chesterfield Reefs, eastern Coral Sea (Veron, 1986). [details]
Image 
Platygyra pini
Platygyra pini
added on 2011-11-01 - author: Collection VLIZ
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207490
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1998-06-02 12:05:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Platygyra pini Chevalier, 1975. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207490 on 2013-05-20
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