WoRMS taxon details
Tubastraea micranthus (Ehrenberg, 1834)
AphiaID: 291255
AphiaID: 291255
| 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 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Tubastraea Lesson, 1829 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Dendrophyllia aequiserialis Milne Edwards & haime, 1848 Dendrophyllia micrantha (Ehrenberg, 1834) Dendrophyllia micrantha var. grandis Crossland, 1952 Dendrophyllia nigrescens Dana, 1846 Dendrophyllia viridis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Oculina micranthus Ehrenberg, 1834 Tubastrea micrantha Ehrenberg, 1834 (genus misspelling) | ||||||||||
| 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. 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: 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] 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] 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] from synonym: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] [view taxon] 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] from synonym: Best, W.G., G. Faure & M. Pichon (1980). Contribution to the knowledge of the stony corals from the Seychelles and Eastern Africa. Rev. Zool. Afr. 94,3: 600 - 627. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Indo-West Pacific [details] Kenya (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Red Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Rodriguez (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Seychelles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] South Africa (country) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Cholomyzon brevisetigerum Humes, 1997 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Coralliomyzon latitergum Humes, 1997 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (2 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: azooxanthellate [details] Depth range: 0-50 m [details] Spelling: often misspelled as micrantha [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:291255 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Tubastraea micranthus (Ehrenberg, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291255 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||
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