WoRMS taxon details
Distichopora violacea (Pallas, 1766)
AphiaID: 210734
AphiaID: 210734
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Hydrozoa (Class) > Hydroidolina (Subclass) > Anthoathecata (Order) > Filifera (Suborder) > Stylasteridae (Family) > Distichopora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Distichopora Lamarck, 1816 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Distichopora cinnabarina Nardo, 1844 Distichopora fisheri Broch, 1942 Distichopora fulvacea Michelin, 1842 Distichopora rosea Kent, 1871 Millepora violacea Pallas, 1766 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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: Cairns, S.D., 1988. New records of Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Western Australia, including the description of two new species. Rec. W. Aust. Mus. 14 1: 105-119. [details] [full text] additional source: Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema, and J.Van Der Land, 1999. Appendix: List of extant stony corals. Atoll Research Bulletin 459: 13-46. [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: Cairns, S.D., 2009. Stylasteridae, Scleractinia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1983. A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. Bull. mar. Sci. 33 2: 427-508. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Forma Distichopora violacea f. cornuta Broch, 1942 accepted as Distichopora coccinea Gray, 1860 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Indo-West Pacific [details] Mauritius [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (63 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: calcareous colonies, no free medusae [details] Depth range: 0-122 m [details] Description: Calcareous skeleton with wide, flat branches, forking regularly, slightly anastomosing; many branches having a line of pores along the edge through which polyps extend. Colour pale purple. Habitat: coastal reefs to deep water. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210734 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Distichopora violacea (Pallas, 1766). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210734 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||||||||
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