WoRMS taxon details
Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1829
AphiaID: 291251
AphiaID: 291251
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Dendrophylliidae (Family) > Tubastraea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Coenopsammia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Tubastraea Lesson, 1829 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Tubastraea Lesson, 1829 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Astropsammia pedersenii Verrill, 1869 Coenopsammia ehrenbergiana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Coenopsammia gaimardi Milne Edwards & haime, 1848 Coenopsammia manni Verrill, 1866 Coenopsammia radiata Verrill, 1864 Coenopsammia tenuilamellosa Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Coenopsammia urvillei Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Dendrophyllia aurantiaca Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 Dendrophyllia manni (Verrill, 1866) Dendrophyllia surcularis Verrill, 1869 Dendrophyllia turbinata Nemenzo, 1960 Lobopsammia aurea Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 Pachypsammia valida Verrill, 1866 Placopsammia darwini Duncan, 1876 Tubastaea coccinea Lesson, 1830 (spelling mistake) Tubastraea aurea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| 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., 2009. Stylasteridae, Scleractinia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [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: Cairns, S.D., 2009. On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge http://www.lophelia.org/online-appendices [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Rec. of West. Austr. Mus. 18(4): 361-417, 9 pls. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2004. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia of Australia. Rec. Australian Mus., 56(3): 259-329, 12 pls. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., and N.B. Keller, 1993. New taxa and distributional records of azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the tropical south-west Indian Ocean, with comments on their zoogeography and ecology. Ann. S. Afr. Mus. 103(5): 213-292, 13 pls. [details] additional source: Sammarco, P.W., S.A. Porter, and S.D. Cairns. 2010. A new coral species introduced into the Atlantic Ocean – Tubastraea micranthus (Ehrenberg 1834) (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia): an invasive threat? Aquatic Invasions, 5(2): 131-140. [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 2000. A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Stud. Nat. Hist. Carib. Reg. 75: 321 pp., 215 figs. [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., and Zibrowius, H., 1997. Cnidaria Anthozoa: Azooxanthellate Scleractinia from the Philippine and Indonesian regions. Mem. Mus. natn. Hist. nat. 172: 27-243, including 29 pls. (=MUSORSTOM Rep. 16). [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1994. Scleractinia of the Temperate North Pacific. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 557:150 pp., 42 plates, 3 figs. [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1991. A revision of the ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Galápagos and Cocos Islands. Smith. Cont. Zool. 504: 32 pp., 12 pls. [details] basis of record (from synonym): Fauré, G. (1977). Annotated checklist of the corals in the Mascarene Archipelago, Indian Ocean. Atoll Research Bulletin 203: 1-26 [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon] source of synonymy (from synonym): Cairns, S.D., 2001. A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Smith. Cont. Zool. 615: 75 pp., 14 pls., 3 figs. [details] [view taxon] basis of record (from synonym): Fautin, Daphne G. (2011). Hexacorallians of the World., available online at http://hercules.kgs.ku.edu/Hexacoral/Anemone2/ [details] [view taxon] original description (from synonym): Quoy, J.C.R. & Gaimard, P. (1833) Mollusques. In Dumont d’Urville, M.J. (Ed.) Voyage de Découverts de l’Astrolabe, Éxécuté par Ordre du Roi Pendant les Années 1826–1827–1828–1829, sous le Commandement de M. J. Dumont d’ Urville. Zoologie, Tome 2. J. Tatsu [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subvariety Tubastraea coccinea titjimaensis Eguchi, 1968 accepted as Cladopsammia gracilis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Aruba (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Atlantic [details] Bonaire (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Cayman Islands (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Colombia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Cuba (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Curaçao (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Mexico [details] Hispaniola (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Indo-Pacific [details] Lesser Antilles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Puerto Rico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Venezuela (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Africa [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 0-110 m [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:291251 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1829. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291251 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||
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