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Millepora exaesa (Forsskål, 1775) 
AphiaID: 210728

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 tuberosa Boschma, 1966 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Fauré, G. (1977). Annotated checklist of the corals in the Mascarene Archipelago, Indian Ocean. Atoll Research Bulletin 203: 1-26 [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]

redescription: Razak, T.B., Hoeksema B.W., 2003. The hydrocoral genus Millepora (Hydrozoa: Capitata: Milleporidae) in Indonesia. Zool. Verh. Leiden 345 : 313-336.
page(s): 328 [details] [full text]

from synonym: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Indo-West Pacific [details]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea [details]
Rodriguez [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To IUCN Red List
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: colonial, calcareous skeleton [details]

Spelling: Spelt M. exacea Forskaal in Sloan et al. (1979). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210728
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-10-13 09:05:27Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2000-09-28 07:24:50Z  changed  Garcia, Maria
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
2011-04-15 06:55:16Z  changed  Schuchert, Peter
  
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  Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Millepora exaesa (Forsskål, 1775). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210728 on 2013-05-20
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