WoRMS taxon details
Eusmilia fastigiata (Pallas, 1766)
AphiaID: 289939
AphiaID: 289939
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Meandrinidae (Family) > Eusmilia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Eusmilia | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Madrepora fastigiata Pallas, 1766 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] additional source: Cairns, S.D., W.C. Jaap, and J.C. Lang. 2009. Scleractinia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 333–347 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: Reyes, J., N. Santodomingo and S.D. Cairns, 2009. Caryophylliidae (Scleractinia) from the Colombian Caribbean. Zootaxa 2262: 1-39, including 4 pls. [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aruba [details] Belize [details] Bonaire [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Curaçao [details] Guatemala [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Hispaniola [details] Honduras [details] Jamaica [details] Mexico [details] Nicaragua [details] Panama [details] Puerto Rico [details] West Atlantic [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Corallonoxia baki Stock, 1975 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Corallonoxia baki Stock, 1975 (parasitic: endoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 5 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Biology: zooxanthellate [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:289939 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Eusmilia fastigiata (Pallas, 1766). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=289939 on 2013-05-20 | |||||||||||
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