WoRMS taxon details
Acropora rongelapensis Richards & Wallace, 2004
AphiaID: 288239
AphiaID: 288239
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Acroporidae (Family) > Acropora (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Acropora Oken, 1815 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Richards, Z.T. & Wallace, C.C. 2004. Acropora rongelapsensis sp. nov., a new species of Acropora from the Marshall Islands (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae). Zootaxa 590: 1-5. [details] basis of record: 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] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Central North Pacific [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 6 proteins) To IUCN Red List | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] Type locality: Rongelap Atoll Lagoon, Marshall Islands [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:288239 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Acropora rongelapensis Richards & Wallace, 2004. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288239 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||
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