Distichopora violacea (Pallas, 1766) 
AphiaID: 210734

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Cnidaria > Hydrozoa > Hydroidolina > Anthoathecata > Filifera > Stylasteridae > Distichopora

Status		accepted
Record status		Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank		Species
Parent		Distichopora Lamarck, 1816
Synonymised taxa		Millepora violacea Pallas, 1766
Sources		basis of record: Fauré, G. (1977). Annotated checklist of the corals in the Mascarene Archipelago, Indian Ocean. Atoll Research Bulletin 203: 1-26 [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 1988. New records of Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from Western Australia, including the description of two new species. Rec. W. Aust. Mus. 14 1: 105-119. [details] [full text] additional source: Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema, and J.Van Der Land, 1999. Appendix: List of extant stony corals. Atoll Research Bulletin 459: 13-46. [details] redescription: Cairns, S.D., 1983. A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. Bull. mar. Sci. 33 2: 427-508. [details]
Environment		marine, terrestrial
Distribution		Mauritius [details] Red Sea [details] Reunion [details] Rodriguez [details]
Links		To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (63 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection To ITIS
Note		Description: Calcareous skeleton with wide, flat branches, forking regularly, slightly anastomosing; many branches having a line of pores along the edge through which polyps extend. Colour pale purple. Habitat: coastal reefs to deep water. Distribution: Indo-Pacific (Richmond, 1997). [details]
Image		Distichopora violacea added on 2008-11-07 - author: Collection Georges Declercq qualitystatus: not checked
LSID		urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210734
Taxonomic Edit history		Date    action    by 1997-10-13 09:05:27Z   created   Fondo, Esther 2000-07-18 15:57:33Z   changed   Vanden Berghe, Edward 2008-01-16 10:35:54Z   changed   van der Land, Jacob 2010-09-27 16:31:04Z   changed   Cairns, Stephen
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		Citation: Cairns, S. (2013). Distichopora violacea (Pallas, 1766). In: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database. Accessed through: Schuchert, P. (2013) World Hydrozoa database at http://www.marinespecies.eu/hydrozoa/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210734 on 2013-05-21