WoRMS taxon details
Millepora platyphylla Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834
AphiaID: 210730
AphiaID: 210730
| 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 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Indo-Pacific [details] Mauritius [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] Seychelles [details] South Africa (country) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: colonial, calcareous skeleton [details] Description: Fire coral. Millepora is not a true coral . Fire coral grows in plates and ridges. Identification of Millepora is uncertain. M. exaesa looks similar (Sheppard, 1998). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210730 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Schuchert, P. (2013). Millepora platyphylla Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834. In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210730 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||||||||
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