WoRMS taxon details
Ctenactis crassa (Dana, 1846)
AphiaID: 288875
AphiaID: 288875
| 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 brachystoma Thiel, 1932 (junior synonym) Fungia crassa Dana, 1846 Fungia simplex (Gardiner, 1905) (synonymy) Haliglossa echinata var. platystoma Ehrenberg, 1834 (junior synonym ?) Haliglossa echinata var. polystoma Ehrenberg, 1834 (junior synonym ?) Herpetoglossa simplex (Gardiner, 1905) Herpolitha simplex Gardiner, 1905 (junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Dana, J.D. 1846. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. Zoophytes 7: 1-740. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. [details] 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: Gardiner, J.S. 1905. Madreporaria III. Fungida IV. Turbinolidae. In: Fauna and geography of the Maldives and Laccadives Archipelagoes, Cambridge 2: 933-957, pls. 89-93. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Ehrenberg, C.G. 1834, Beitrage zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im Allgemeinen und besunders des Rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1832: 225-380. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Thiel, M.E. 1932. Madreporaria. Zugleich ein Versuch einer vergleichenden Oekologie der gefundenen Formen. Resultats scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Neerlandaises. Memoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. Hors ser. 2 (12): 1-177, pls. 1-21. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: Banda Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] type locality: Maldives (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] type locality: Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Indo-West Pacific [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: zooxanthellate, free-living [details] Type locality: Fiji [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:288875 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Ctenactis crassa (Dana, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288875 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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