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Fungia taiwanensis Hoeksema & Dai, 1991 
AphiaID: 288859

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Fungiidae (Family) > Fungia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Pleuractis taiwanensis (Hoeksema & Dai, 1991)
Rank Species
Parent Fungia Lamarck, 1801
Sources  original description: Hoeksema, B.W. & Dai,C.F. 1991. Scleractinia of Taiwan. II Family Fungiidae (with the description of a new species). Bulletin Zoological Institute, Academia Sinica, Taipei 30: 201-226. [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]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English mushroom coral  [details]
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution West Pacific [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To IUCN Red List
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection
To ITIS
Note  Biology: zooxanthellate, sedentary [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:288859
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z  created  van der Land, Jacob
2013-01-24 18:51:11Z  changed  Hoeksema, Bert
  
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  Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Fungia taiwanensis Hoeksema & Dai, 1991. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288859 on 2013-06-20
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