WoRMS taxon details

Conopora gigantea Cairns, 1991

287508  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:287508)

accepted
Species
marine, terrestrial
recent only
Cairns, S.D. (1991). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydroida). <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 98: 1-179, pls. 1-77.
page(s): 78 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Holotype  NIWA 1111  
Holotype NIWA 1111 [details]
Depth range 356 m  
Depth range 356 m [details]
Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Conopora gigantea Cairns, 1991. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=287508 on 2025-10-08
Date
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2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
created
2010-09-24 12:25:57Z
checked

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Nomenclature

original description Cairns, S.D. (1991). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydroida). <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir.</em> 98: 1-179, pls. 1-77.
page(s): 78 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record Cairns, S.D. & J. van der Land. (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

Taxonomy

redescription Cairns, S.D. (2015). Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Anthoathecata) of the New Caledonian Region. <em>Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 28. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 207. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum: Paris.</em> 361 + 1 cd-rom pp., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/27379
page(s): 213 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Cairns, Stephen (look up in IMIS) [details] 

additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 459: 13-46. [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype NIWA 1111 [details]
From editor or global species database
Depth range 356 m [details]

Unreviewed
Biology calcareous colonies, no free medusae [details]
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