WoRMS name details
Euphyllia fimbriata (Spengler, 1799)
289216 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:289216)
uncertain > nomen dubium
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Madrepora fimbriata Spengler, 1799) Spengler L (1799) Beskrivelse over en nye og sielden Koral-Art, kaldet Madrepora fimbriata. Nye Samling af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter, Kiøbenhavn: 5: 607-614. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Euphyllia fimbriata (Spengler, 1799). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=289216 on 2026-08-02
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Nomenclature
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(of Madrepora fimbriata Spengler, 1799) Spengler L (1799) Beskrivelse over en nye og sielden Koral-Art, kaldet Madrepora fimbriata. Nye Samling af det Kongelige Danske Videnskabers Selskabs Skrifter, Kiøbenhavn: 5: 607-614. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1980). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part III. Family Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectinidae, Caryophyllidae, Dendrophylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 4: 1-459., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60646
page(s): 351 [details]
page(s): 351 [details]
Other
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Sheppard CRC. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 307: 1-32., available online at http:// https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.307.1 [details]
additional source Vaughan TW. (1918). Some shallow-water corals from Murray Island (Australia), Cocos-Keeling Island, and Fanning Island. <em>Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 9 (213): 49-234, pls. 20-93. [details]
additional source Verrill, A. E. (1864). List of the polyps and corals sent by the Museum of Comparative Zoology to other institutions in exchange, with annotations. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 1: 29-60., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6587563
page(s): 50 [details]
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.
page(s): 22 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T, Eguchi M. (1936). Recent reef-building corals from Japan and the South Sea Islands under the Japanese mandate. I. <em>The Science reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai, 2nd Series (Geologie).</em> Special Volume 1: 1-66, pls. 1-59.
page(s): 17 [details]
additional source Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. <em>Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.42.379
page(s): 388, 393 [details]
additional source Wells JW (1971) Notes on Indo-Pacific scleractinian corals. Part 7. Catalaphyllia, a new genus of reef corals. Pacific Science 25: 368-371.
page(s): 368, 369, 371 [details]
additional source Pillai CSG, Scheer G (1976) Report on the stony corals from the Maldive Archipelago. Results of the Xarifa Expedition 1957/58. Zoologica, Stuttgart 43 (126): 1-83, pls. 1-32. [details]
additional source Studer, T. (1880). Beitrag zur Fauna der Steinkorallen von Singapore. <em>Mittheilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern.</em> 979: 15-53., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12090774
page(s): 29 [details]
additional source Crossland C (1952) Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Scientific Report Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 VI(3): 85-257.
page(s): 89 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Chevalier JP (1971) Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). I. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie 5: 1-307, pls. 1-38. Paris. [details]
additional source Nemenzo F (1960) Systematic studies on Philippine shallow water scleractinians: III. Suborder Caryophilliida. Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines 17: 207-213, pls. 1-2.
page(s): 207, 210 [details]
additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1441.1.2
page(s): 33 [details]
additional source Utinomi H (1971) Scleractinian corals from Kamae Bay, Oita Prefecture, Northeast of Kyushu, Japan. Publications Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 19: 203-229, available online at https://doi.org/10.5134/175722 [details]
additional source Bedot M (1907) Madreporaires d'Amboine. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 15: 143-292, pls. 5-50.
page(s): 160-161 [details]
additional source Matthai G (1924) Report on the madreporarian corals in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 8: 1-59. [details]
additional source Pillai CSG. (1972). Stony corals of the seas around India. <em>Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Corals and Coral Reefs, 1969. Marine Biological Association of India Symposium.</em> 5: 191-216.
page(s): 211 [details]
additional source Utinomi, H. (1965). A revised catalogue of scleractinian corals from the southwest coast of Shikoku in the collections of the Ehime University and the Ehime Prefectural Museum, Matsuyama. <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 13(3): 243-261., available online at https://doi.org/10.5134/175404
page(s): 255 [details]
additional source UNEP-WCMC. (2012). Coral species, synonyms, and nomenclature references currently recognized in the UNEP-WCMC database. <em>CITES, Twenty-sixth Meeting of the Animals Committee.</em> Annex 6: 1-117., available online at https://cites.org/sites/default/files/common/com/ac/26/E26-20-A6.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Ma, T. Y. H. (1938). On the water temperature of the western Pacific during Early and Late Pleistocene as deduced from the growth rate of fossil corals. <em>Bulletin of the Geological Society of China.</em> 18 (3‐4): 349-418. [details]
additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Sheppard CRC. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 307: 1-32., available online at http:// https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.307.1 [details]
additional source Vaughan TW. (1918). Some shallow-water corals from Murray Island (Australia), Cocos-Keeling Island, and Fanning Island. <em>Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 9 (213): 49-234, pls. 20-93. [details]
additional source Verrill, A. E. (1864). List of the polyps and corals sent by the Museum of Comparative Zoology to other institutions in exchange, with annotations. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 1: 29-60., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6587563
page(s): 50 [details]
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.
page(s): 22 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T, Eguchi M. (1936). Recent reef-building corals from Japan and the South Sea Islands under the Japanese mandate. I. <em>The Science reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai, 2nd Series (Geologie).</em> Special Volume 1: 1-66, pls. 1-59.
page(s): 17 [details]
additional source Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. <em>Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.42.379
page(s): 388, 393 [details]
additional source Wells JW (1971) Notes on Indo-Pacific scleractinian corals. Part 7. Catalaphyllia, a new genus of reef corals. Pacific Science 25: 368-371.
page(s): 368, 369, 371 [details]
additional source Pillai CSG, Scheer G (1976) Report on the stony corals from the Maldive Archipelago. Results of the Xarifa Expedition 1957/58. Zoologica, Stuttgart 43 (126): 1-83, pls. 1-32. [details]
additional source Studer, T. (1880). Beitrag zur Fauna der Steinkorallen von Singapore. <em>Mittheilungen der Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Bern.</em> 979: 15-53., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12090774
page(s): 29 [details]
additional source Crossland C (1952) Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Scientific Report Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 VI(3): 85-257.
page(s): 89 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Chevalier JP (1971) Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). I. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie 5: 1-307, pls. 1-38. Paris. [details]
additional source Nemenzo F (1960) Systematic studies on Philippine shallow water scleractinians: III. Suborder Caryophilliida. Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines 17: 207-213, pls. 1-2.
page(s): 207, 210 [details]
additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1441.1.2
page(s): 33 [details]
additional source Utinomi H (1971) Scleractinian corals from Kamae Bay, Oita Prefecture, Northeast of Kyushu, Japan. Publications Seto Marine Biological Laboratory 19: 203-229, available online at https://doi.org/10.5134/175722 [details]
additional source Bedot M (1907) Madreporaires d'Amboine. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 15: 143-292, pls. 5-50.
page(s): 160-161 [details]
additional source Matthai G (1924) Report on the madreporarian corals in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 8: 1-59. [details]
additional source Pillai CSG. (1972). Stony corals of the seas around India. <em>Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Corals and Coral Reefs, 1969. Marine Biological Association of India Symposium.</em> 5: 191-216.
page(s): 211 [details]
additional source Utinomi, H. (1965). A revised catalogue of scleractinian corals from the southwest coast of Shikoku in the collections of the Ehime University and the Ehime Prefectural Museum, Matsuyama. <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 13(3): 243-261., available online at https://doi.org/10.5134/175404
page(s): 255 [details]
additional source UNEP-WCMC. (2012). Coral species, synonyms, and nomenclature references currently recognized in the UNEP-WCMC database. <em>CITES, Twenty-sixth Meeting of the Animals Committee.</em> Annex 6: 1-117., available online at https://cites.org/sites/default/files/common/com/ac/26/E26-20-A6.pdf [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Ma, T. Y. H. (1938). On the water temperature of the western Pacific during Early and Late Pleistocene as deduced from the growth rate of fossil corals. <em>Bulletin of the Geological Society of China.</em> 18 (3‐4): 349-418. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype IGPS 39253, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 40262, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 40286, geounit Taiwanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 40357, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 40400, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 40436, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 40438, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 44623, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 44631, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 44648, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 44901, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 48296, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 49205, geounit Chinese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 49738, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 58252, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype MSI C-351 [details]
Nontype MSI C-707, geounit Philippine Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype MSI C-858 [details]
Unknown type IMC jun-66, geounit Myanmar Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type IMC mrt-39 [details]
Unknown type IMC mrt-43 [details]
Unknown type IMC mrt-64 [details]
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Biology zooxanthellate [details]
