WoRMS taxon details
Zoopilus echinatus Dana, 1846
AphiaID: 291309
AphiaID: 291309
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Fungiidae (Family) > Zoopilus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Zoopilus Dana, 1846 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Zoopilus Dana, 1846 | ||||||||||
| 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] 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] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: Fiji Islands [details] West Pacific [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To IUCN Red List To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Biology: zooxanthellate, free-living [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:291309 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Zoopilus echinatus Dana, 1846. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=291309 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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