WoRMS taxon details
Sandalolitha Quelch, 1884
AphiaID: 267823
AphiaID: 267823
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Fungiidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Sandalolitha dentata Quelch, 1884 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Fungiidae Dana, 1846 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Doederleinia Gardiner, 1909 (junior synonym) Parahalomitra Wells, 1937 (junior synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Quelch, J.J. 1884. Preliminary notice of new genera and species of Challenger reef-corals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5th Series 13: 292-297. [details] additional source: Wells, J.W. 1966. Evolutionary development in the scleractinian family Fungiidae. In: Rees WJ (ed.) The Cnidaria and their evolution. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London 16: 223–246, pl. 1. Academic Press, London. [details] additional source: 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] additional source: Gittenberger, A., Reijnen, B.T. & Hoeksema, B.W. 2011. A molecularly based phylogeny reconstruction of mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) with taxonomic consequences and evolutionary implications for life history traits. Contributions to Zoology 80: 107-132. , available online at http://dpc.uba.uva.nl/cgi/t/text/get-pdf?c=ctz;idno=8002a02 [details] from synonym: Wells, J.W. 1937. New genera of Mesozoic and Cenozoic corals. Journal of Paleontology 11: 73-77. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Gardiner, J.S. 1909. The Madreporarian Corals. I. The family Fungiidae, with a revision of its genera and species and an account of their geographical distribution. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology (Ser. 2) 12: 257- 290, pls. 33-39. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Species Sandalolitha boucheti Hoeksema, 2012 Species Sandalolitha dentata Quelch, 1884 Species Sandalolitha robusta (Quelch, 1886) Species Sandalolitha africana Veron, 2000 accepted as Herpolitha limax (Esper, 1797) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Indo-West Pacific [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267823 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Sandalolitha Quelch, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267823 on 2013-05-19 | ||||||||||||||
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