WoRMS taxon details
Ctenactis echinata (Pallas, 1766)
AphiaID: 216132
AphiaID: 216132
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Fungiidae (Family) > Ctenactis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Ctenactis Verrill, 1864 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Fungia (Ctenactis) echinata (Pallas, 1766) Fungia asperata Dana, 1846 (junior synonym) Fungia echinata (Pallas, 1766) Fungia echinata var. parvispina Döderlein, 1902 (junior synonym) Fungia echinata var. undulata Döderlein, 1902 (junior synonym) Fungia gigantea Dana, 1846 (junior synonym) Fungia pectinata Ehrenberg, 1834 (junior synonym) Haliglossa echinata (Pallas, 1766) Herpetolithas ehrenbergii Leuckart, 1841 (junior synonym) Herpetolithas ruepellii Leuckart, 1841 (junior synonym) Madrepora echinata Pallas, 1766 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Pallas, P.S. (1766) Elenchus zoophytorum. Van Cleef, Hagae-Comitum, pp. 1-451, available online at http://www.gdz-cms.de/no_cache/en/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=222048 [details] [full text]
basis of record: Hoeksema, B.W., 1989. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden 254: 1-295., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149013 [details] from synonym: Ehrenberg, C.G., 1834. Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des Rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. Phys. Math. Abh. Kön. Akad. Wiss. Berl., 1832 1: 225-380. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Leuckart, F.S. 1841. Observations zoologicae de Zoophytis coralliis, speciatim de genere Fungia, p. 1-60, pls. 1-4. Emmerling, Friburgi Brisigavorum. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Dana, J.D. 1846. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. Zoophytes 7: 1-740. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Scheer, G. & Pillai, C.S.G. 1974. Report on Scleractinia from the Nicobar Islands. Zoologica, Stuttgart 42 (122): 1-75, pls. 1-33. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Döderlein, L. 1902. Die Korallengattung Fungia. Abhandlungen herausgegeben von der senckenbergischen naturforschenden Gesellschaft 27: 1–162, I–XXV. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: Fiji Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] type locality: Indian Ocean (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] type locality: Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos [details] Indo-West Pacific [details] Red Sea [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate, free-living [details] Description: Septa are striking, with triangular, large and very regular teeth. Coralla are elongate and large (up to 50 cm long). The central groove may contain one, two, or more centres. Rarely the coral may attain a "star" pattern, possibly due to breakage and uneven regrowth, and in these cases the central furrow, and usually another centre, continues into each of the three arms. This is one of the commonest and most widespread of the free living fungiids. It occupies fore and back reef slopes, rubble, but not soft substrate, from 5 to 25 m deep. Ctenactis simplex is probably the same species. [details] Remark: Previously included in the Genus Fungia. [details] Type locality: "Mare Indicus" Indian Sea. Neotype from Thousand Islands, Java Sea [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216132 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Ctenactis echinata (Pallas, 1766). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216132 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||||||||
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