WoRMS taxon details
Heliopora coerulea (Pallas, 1766)
AphiaID: 210725
AphiaID: 210725
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Octocorallia (Subclass) > Helioporacea (Order) > Helioporidae (Family) > Heliopora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Heliopora de Blainville, 1830 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Heliopora de Blainville, 1830 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] additional source: J. van der Land, update 2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Comores [details] Eritrea [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] Somalia [details] South Africa (country) [details] Tanzania [details] Tropical Western Indo-Pacific [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (100 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (20 nucleotides; 31 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Description: Blue coral. This is not a true coral, but produces a limestone skeleton. Its skeleton is bright blue when cleaned. Its growth form is a series of vertical keels or branches, slender in very calm water, stout in more turbulent areas. When living, it looks brown, because of the covering of living tissue. Polyps are minute, usually giving a slightly furry appearance. Distribution: species extends across most of the Indian Ocean. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>) [details] Habitat: shallow water [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210725 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: van Ofwegen, L. (2013). Heliopora coerulea (Pallas, 1766). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210725 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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