WoRMS taxon details
Millepora alcicornis Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 210726
AphiaID: 210726
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Capitata (Suborder) > Milleporidae (Family) > Millepora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Millepora Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Millepora nitida Verrill, 1868 (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: Kalk, M. (1959). A general ecological survey of some shores in northern Mozambique. Revta Biol., Lisb. 2: 1-24. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: S.D. Cairns & J. van der Land, 2000-2007, as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Calder, D. R. and S. D. Cairns. 2009. Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 381–394 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] source of synonymy (from synonym): Boschma, H., 1948. The species problem in Millepora. Zool. Verh., Leiden 1 : 1-115. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aruba [details] Belize [details] Bonaire [details] Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Cayman Islands [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Curaçao [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Hispaniola [details] Honduras [details] Jamaica [details] Mexico [details] Mozambique [details] Nicaragua [details] Panama [details] Puerto Rico [details] Venezuela [details] West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (228 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: colonial, calcareous skeleton [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210726 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Millepora alcicornis Linnaeus, 1758. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210726 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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