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Dendrophyllia arbuscula van der Horst, 1922 
AphiaID: 210746

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Dendrophylliidae (Family) > Dendrophyllia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Dendrophyllia de Blainville, 1830
Synonymised
taxa
  Dendrophyllia erecta Nemenzo, 1960
Dendrophyllia horsti Gardiner & Waugh, 1939
Dendrophyllia nouhuysi Gardiner & Waugh, 1939
Dendrophyllia sphaerica Nemenzo, 1960
Dendrophyllia subcornigera Eguchi, 1969
Dendrophyllia subcornigera subcornigera Eguchi, 1968
Sources  basis of record: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: S.D.Cairns, B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land, update Oct. 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]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge http://www.lophelia.org/online-appendices  [details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Rec. of West. Austr. Mus. 18(4): 361-417, 9 pls.  [details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2004. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia of Australia. Rec. Australian Mus., 56(3): 259-329, 12 pls. [details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-Water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Mem. Mus. natl. Hist. nat., Paris, 180: 31-167. [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1995. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). N. Z. Oceanographic Mem, 103: 210 pp. [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., and Zibrowius, H., 1997. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. Mem. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. 172: 27-243, including 29 pls. (=MUSORSTOM Rep. 16).  [details]

redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1994. Scleractinia of the Temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 557:150 pp., 42 plates, 3 figs.  [details]

from synonym: Cairns, S.D., and N.B. Keller, 1993. New taxa and distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 103(5): 213-292, 13 pls.  [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English tree coral  [details]
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Variety Dendrophyllia arbuscula var. compressa Eguchi & Sazaki, 1973 accepted as Cladopsammia eguchii (Wells, 1982)
Environment marine, terrestrial
Distribution New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Red Sea [details]
West Pacific [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Biology: azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range: 2-353 m [details]

Habitat: shelf [details]

Spelling: Spelled as D. arbusculata in Macnae&Kalk,1958. [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210746
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-11-03 12:50:28Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2000-09-08 06:57:57Z  changed  Govaerts, Ann
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  changed  van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-12 15:05:52Z  checked  Cairns, Stephen
  
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  Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Dendrophyllia arbuscula van der Horst, 1922. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210746 on 2013-05-21
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