UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Pocillopora elegans Dana, 1846

WoRMS taxon details

Pocillopora elegans Dana, 1846

AphiaID

206956 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206956)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816

Original name

Pocillopora elegans Dana, 1846

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Pocillopora elegans Dana, 1846. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206956 on 2025-05-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-03 14:17:27Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

changed

van der Land, Jacob

2014-04-21 09:20:09Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-20 17:56:48Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Sheppard CRC. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. Atoll Research Bulletin. 307: 1-32., available online at http:// https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.307.1 [details]

Other

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additional source Ortmann, A. (1888). Studien über Systematik und geographische Verbreitung der Steinkorallen. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abtheilung für Systematik, Biologie und Biogeographie der Tiere. 3: 143-188, pl. 6.
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additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 260(I): 385-486.
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additional source Dana, J. D. (1849). Atlas. Zoophytes. C. Sherman. Philadelphia., pp. 12-01
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additional source Hoffmeister, J.E. (1925). Some corals from America Samoa and the Fiji Islands. Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 22: 1-90, pls. 1-23.
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additional source Vaughan TW. (1918). Some shallow-water corals from Murray Island (Australia), Cocos-Keeling Island, and Fanning Island. Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 9 (213): 49-234, pls. 20-93. [details]

additional source Quelch J.J. (1886). Report on the Reef-corals collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873-76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Zoology. 16 (46): 1-203, pls 1-12., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-46/README.htm
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additional source Dana, J.D. (1846-1847). On Zoophytes. The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series. 2(4): 64-69; 2(5): 187-202; 3(7): 1-24; 3(8): 160-163; 3(9): 337-347. New-Haven., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28135503
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additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. Atoll Research Bulletin. 459: 13-46.
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additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. Micronesica. 35-36: 121-137.
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additional source 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]

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additional source Thiel, M.E. (1932). Madreporaria. Zugleich ein Versuch einer vergleichenden Oekologie der gefundenen Formen. Resultats scientifiques du Voyage aux Indes Orientales Neerlandaises. Memoires du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique. 2(12): 1-177, pls. 1-21. [details] Available for editors

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