URMO taxon details
Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834
206621 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206621)
accepted
Genus
- Species Platygyra acuta Veron, 2000
- Species Platygyra carnosa Veron, 2000
- Species Platygyra contorta Veron, 1990
- Species Platygyra crosslandi (Matthai, 1928)
- Species Platygyra daedalea (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
- Species Platygyra lamellina (Ehrenberg, 1834)
- Species Platygyra pini Chevalier, 1975
- Species Platygyra ryukyuensis Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935
- Species Platygyra sinensis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)
- Species Platygyra verweyi Wijsman-Best, 1976
- Species Platygyra yaeyamaensis (Eguchi & Shirai, 1977)
- Species Platygyra carnosus Veron, 2000 accepted as Platygyra carnosa Veron, 2000 (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
- Species Platygyra zelli Veron, Pichon & Best, 1977 accepted as Australogyra zelli (Veron, Pichon & Best, 1977) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of ) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beitr�ge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. <em>Abhandlungen der K�niglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206621 on 2025-05-04
Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206621 on 2025-05-04
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(of ) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beitr�ge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. <em>Abhandlungen der K�niglichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862 [details]
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 Daly, M.M., Fautin D.G., Cappola V.A., 2003. Systematics of the Hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 3: 419-437.
page(s): 424-425, 427-428 [details] Available for editors
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): 49 [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
additional source Benzoni, F., Stefani, F., Pichon, M., Galli, P. 2010. The name game: morpho-molecular species boundaries in the genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 421-456., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00622.x
page(s): 422, 437, 449 [details] Available for editors
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 Wells JW. (1936). The nomenclature and type species of some genera of recent and fossil corals. <em>American Journal of Science.</em> 31: 97-134., available online at https://ajsonline.org/article/61464 [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
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Oca�a, 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.S�nchez & 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
additional source Chevalier JP. (1975). Les Scl�ractiniaires de la M�lan�sie Fran�aise (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyaut�, Nouvelles H�brides). II. Expedition Fran�aise sur les R�cifs Coralliens Nouv.-Cal�donie. 7: 1-407, pls. 1-42. Paris. [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 Utinomi, H. (1971). Intertidal alcyonarians in the vicinity of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 28(5): 87-110, plates 15-16.
page(s): 88 [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 Grigg, R. W. & F.M. Bayer. (1976). Present knowledge of the systematics and zoogeography of the order Gorgonacea in Hawaii. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 30(2): 167-175.
page(s): 173 [details] Available for editors
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 Daly, M.M., Fautin D.G., Cappola V.A., 2003. Systematics of the Hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 3: 419-437.
page(s): 424-425, 427-428 [details] Available for editors
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): 49 [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
additional source Benzoni, F., Stefani, F., Pichon, M., Galli, P. 2010. The name game: morpho-molecular species boundaries in the genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 421-456., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00622.x
page(s): 422, 437, 449 [details] Available for editors
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 Wells JW. (1936). The nomenclature and type species of some genera of recent and fossil corals. <em>American Journal of Science.</em> 31: 97-134., available online at https://ajsonline.org/article/61464 [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
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Oca�a, 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.S�nchez & 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
additional source Chevalier JP. (1975). Les Scl�ractiniaires de la M�lan�sie Fran�aise (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyaut�, Nouvelles H�brides). II. Expedition Fran�aise sur les R�cifs Coralliens Nouv.-Cal�donie. 7: 1-407, pls. 1-42. Paris. [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 Utinomi, H. (1971). Intertidal alcyonarians in the vicinity of Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 28(5): 87-110, plates 15-16.
page(s): 88 [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 Grigg, R. W. & F.M. Bayer. (1976). Present knowledge of the systematics and zoogeography of the order Gorgonacea in Hawaii. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 30(2): 167-175.
page(s): 173 [details] Available for editors
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