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Echinopora Lamarck, 1816

Holotype of Echinopora rosularia Lamarck, 1816
Holotype of Echinopora rosularia Lamarck, 1816

205519  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205519)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Vacatina (Suborder)
  8. Merulinidae (Family)
  9. Echinopora (Genus)
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  1. Species Echinopora acervularia (Mayer-Eymar, 1883) †
  2. Species Echinopora ambigua (Sismonda, 1871) †
  3. Species Echinopora anomala (Duncan, 1880) †
  4. Species Echinopora apenninica (d'Achiardi, 1868) †
  5. Species Echinopora ashmorensis Veron, 1990
  6. Species Echinopora astroides Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 †
  7. Species Echinopora autignacensis (Chevalier, 1961) †
  8. Species Echinopora bormidensis (Michelotti, 1871) †
  9. Species Echinopora boueana (Reuss, 1864) †
  10. Species Echinopora columnaris (Reuss, 1868) †
  11. Species Echinopora constricta (de Fromentel, 1867) †
  12. Species Echinopora corollaris (Reuss, 1854) †
  13. Species Echinopora crassatina Gerth, 1921 †
  14. Species Echinopora cribraria (Michelin, 1840) †
  15. Species Echinopora cyclommatos (Felix, 1921) †
  16. Species Echinopora cylindrica (Osasco, 1902) †
  17. Species Echinopora deformis (Chevalier, 1961) †
  18. Species Echinopora defrancei (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) †
  19. Species Echinopora delcrosiana (Michelin, 1841) †
  20. Species Echinopora delicata (Osasco, 1897) †
  21. Species Echinopora digitata (Duncan, 1880) †
  22. Species Echinopora eminens (Reuss, 1864) †
  23. Species Echinopora exsculpta (Reuss, 1854) †
  24. Species Echinopora falax (Michelotti, 1871) †
  25. Species Echinopora fontana (Oppenheim, 1899) †
  26. Species Echinopora forbesi (Duncan, 1865) †
  27. Species Echinopora forojuliensis (Oppenheim, 1901) †
  28. Species Echinopora forskaliana (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)
  29. Species Echinopora fruticulosa (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  30. Species Echinopora gemmacea (Lamarck, 1816)
  31. Species Echinopora gemmans (Michelotti, 1871) †
  32. Species Echinopora grandis (Chevalier, 1961) †
  33. Species Echinopora guettardi (Defrance, 1826) †
  34. Species Echinopora haimei (d'Archiac, 1866) †
  35. Species Echinopora hirsutissima Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
  36. Species Echinopora horrida Dana, 1846
  37. Species Echinopora ifolensis (Michelin, 1843) †
  38. Species Echinopora immersa (Reuss, 1868) †
  39. Species Echinopora inaequalis (Reuss, 1868) †
  40. Species Echinopora incrustans (Osasco, 1897)
  41. Species Echinopora intermedia (Michelotti, 1871) †
  42. Species Echinopora irregularis (Martin, 1880) †
  43. Species Echinopora irregularis Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2000 (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym)
  44. Species Echinopora laevicostata (de Fromentel, 1861) †
  45. Species Echinopora lamellosa (Esper, 1791)
  46. Species Echinopora laticosta (Chevalier, 1961) †
  47. Species Echinopora lepida (Reuss, 1854) †
  48. Species Echinopora lilli (Reuss, 1854) †
  49. Species Echinopora mammiformis (Nemenzo, 1959)
  50. Species Echinopora maxima Duncan, 1880 †
  51. Species Echinopora mellahica (Gregory, 1906) †
  52. Species Echinopora menighinii (Reuss, 1869) †
  53. Species Echinopora microcalyx (Felix, 1884) †
  54. Species Echinopora miocenica Duncan, 1880 †
  55. Species Echinopora moravica (Trauth, 1911) †
  56. Species Echinopora murrayi (Gregory, 1900) †
  57. Species Echinopora neocomiensis (de Fromentel, 1857) †
  58. Species Echinopora nerthensis (Chevalier, 1961) †
  59. Species Echinopora oligophylla (Reuss, 1872) †
  60. Species Echinopora ortiva (Stoliczka, 1873) †
  61. Species Echinopora pacifica Veron, 1990
  62. Species Echinopora parva (Chevalier, 1961) †
  63. Species Echinopora pediculata (Deshayes, 1831) †
  64. Species Echinopora pelarangensis Gerth, 1923 †
  65. Species Echinopora pelouaensis (Chevalier, 1954) †
  66. Species Echinopora porosa Gerth, 1925 †
  67. Species Echinopora problematica (Seguenza, 1864) †
  68. Species Echinopora putealis (Michelin, 1842) †
  69. Species Echinopora robusta Veron, 2000
  70. Species Echinopora rochetteana (Michelin, 1842) †
  71. Species Echinopora rotunda (Stoliczka, 1873) †
  72. Species Echinopora salisburgensis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) †
  73. Species Echinopora saubriguensis (Chevalier, 1961) †
  74. Species Echinopora sexangula (de Fromentel, 1867) †
  75. Species Echinopora simonyi (Reuss, 1854) †
  76. Species Echinopora sindiana (Duncan, 1880) †
  77. Species Echinopora striata (Michelin, 1840) †
  78. Species Echinopora stricta (Michelotti, 1871) †
  79. Species Echinopora sulcatolamellosa (Michelin, 1841) †
  80. Species Echinopora superficialis (Michelotti, 1871) †
  81. Species Echinopora taurensis (Chevalier, 1954) †
  82. Species Echinopora taurinensis (Chevalier, 1954) †
  83. Species Echinopora taylorae (Veron, 2000)
  84. Species Echinopora tchihatcheffi (Chevalier, 1961) †
  85. Species Echinopora tenuisepta (Oppenheim, 1930) †
  86. Species Echinopora terminaria (Michelin, 1841) †
  87. Species Echinopora tiranensis Veron, Turak & DeVantier, 2000
  88. Species Echinopora varians (Michelin, 1840) †
  89. Species Echinopora vesparia (Michelin, 1841) †
  90. Species Echinopora grandicula Claereboudt, 2006 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
  91. Species Echinopora litae Nemenzo & Montecillo, 1981 accepted as Echinopora lamellosa (Esper, 1791) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  92. Species Echinopora pacificus Veron, 1990 accepted as Echinopora pacifica Veron, 1990 (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome second, 566 pp. Paris, Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details] OpenAccess publication
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Echinopora Lamarck, 1816. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205519 on 2025-09-13
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Echinopora Lamarck, 1816. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205519 on 2025-09-13
Date
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1997-02-03 14:17:27Z
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Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z
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Vanden Berghe, Edward
2013-02-06 17:41:18Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2014-03-16 13:26:33Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2018-08-19 15:47:43Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2021-04-28 05:39:27Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2022-05-15 06:23:49Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2022-11-25 10:16:10Z
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Hoeksema, Bert

original description Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome second, 566 pp. Paris, Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details] 

additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M, Wijsman-Best M. (1977). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph series.</em> 3: 1-233. [details] 

additional source Robertson R. (1970). Review of the predators and parasites of stony Corals, with special reference to symbiotic Prosobranch Gastropods. <i>Pacific Science 24 (1)</i>: 43-54
page(s): 48 [details] 

additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details] 

additional source Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details] 

additional source Matthai G. (1914). A revision of the recent colonial Astraeidae possessing distinct corallites. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd Series Zoology.</em> 17(1): 1-140, pls. 1-38. [details] 

additional source Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details] 

additional source Huang D, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Budd AF (2014) Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12140 [details] 

additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details] 

additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555
page(s): 28, 116 [details] 

additional source Khalil HM, Fathy MS, Al Sawy SM. (2021). Quaternary corals (Scleractinia: Merulinidae) from the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast. <em>Geological Journal.</em> , available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gj.4145?af=R [details] 

additional source Reinicke, G. B.; Schuhmacher, H. (1996). Significance of different traits of soft-coral assemblages (Octocorallia, Alcyoniina) in benthic reef communities of the Red Sea. Göttinger Arbeiten zur Geologie Paläontologie, Sb2, 77-84
page(s): 82 [details] 
 
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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Echinopora) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (specialist's notes pg 1) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (specialist's notes pg 2) 
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