WoRMS taxon details
original description
Link, D. H. F. (1806-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben. 1, pp. 1-50 [1806]; 2, pp. 51-100 [1807]; 3, pp. 101-165 [1807]; 4, pp. 1-30 [1807]; 5, pp. 1-38 [1808]; 6, pp. 1-38 [1808]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43301237 [details]
original description
(of Neoporites Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1860). Mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Mémoires de l'Academie des Sciences de Turin, séries 2.</em> 19: 279-365, pls 1-10., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12140332 [details]
original description
(of Cosmoporites Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) Duchassaing P, Michelotti J. (1864). Supplément au mémoire sur les coralliaires des Antilles. <em>Memorie della Reale Accademia della Scienze di Torino, Serie 2.</em> 23: 97-206, plates 1-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31197612 [details]
original description
(of Napopora Quelch, 1884) Quelch, J.J. 1884. Preliminary notice of new genera and species of Challenger reef-corals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5th Series 13: 292-297. [details]
original description
(of Porites (Synaraea) Verrill, 1864) 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 [details]
original description
(of Synaraea Verrill, 1864) 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 [details]
basis of record
Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [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, 430 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Steiner, S.C.C., 2003. Stony corals and reefs of Dominica. Atoll Res. Bull. : 497-508. page(s): 3, 5, 10 [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): 33, 67 [details]
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. page(s): 422, 437 [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
Verrill, A.E. 1870. Descriptions of echinoderms and corals from the Gulf of California. American Journal of Science 49: 93-100., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36445101 page(s): 100 [details]
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. page(s): 387, 389, 391, 401 [details]
additional source
Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V.; Ocaña, 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.Sánchez & 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> pp. 59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source
Forsman, Z. H.; Birkeland, C. (2009). Porites randalli: a new coral species (Scleractinia, Poritidae) from American Samoa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2244: 51-59. page(s): 52 [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
Kitano YF, Benzoni F, Arrigoni R, Shirayama Y, Wallace CC, Fukami H. (2014). A Phylogeny of the Family Poritidae (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) Based on Molecular and Morphological Analyses. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 9(5): e98406., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098406 [details]
additional source
Foster AB. (1986). Neogene Paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic 3. The family Poritidae (Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology. 90 (325): 47-123, pls. 15-38.</em> [details]
additional source
den Hartog, J. C. (1980). Caribbean Shallow Water Corallimorpharia. Zoologische Verhandelingen, (176): 83 pp. page(s): 68 [details]
additional source
Verrill, A. E. (1866). Synopsis of the polyps and corals of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, under Commodore C. Ringgold and Capt. John Rodgers, U.S.N., from 1853 to 1856. Collected by Dr. Wm. Stimpson, Naturalist to the Expedition. Part III. Madreporaria. Communications of the Essex Institute, 5(2): 17-32 page(s): 25 [details]
additional source
McMurrich, J. P. (1904). The Actiniae of the Plate collection. Zoologische Jahrbücher, 6 Suppl.(2): 215-306 page(s): 217 [details]
additional source
Allen, G. R. (1972). The Anemonefishes: Their Classification and Biology. T. F. H. Publications, Inc. Ltd. Neptune City, New Jersey., pp. 288. page(s): 173 [details]
additional source
Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details]
additional source
Maragos, J. E.; Schmerfeld, J. (2004). Coral survey from Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge, 1998-2004 [Table 3]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished page(s): 1 [details]
additional source
Maragos, J. E.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Rose Atoll coral data compiled from US Fish and Wildlife Service 1994, Townsend Cromwell 2002, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 10]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished page(s): 1 [details]
additional source
Echeverría, C. A.; Pires, D. de Oliveira; Medeiros, M. S.; Castro, C. B. (1997). Cnidarians of the Atol das Rocas, Brazil. Proceedings of the Eighth International Coral Reef Symposium, 1, 443-446 page(s): 445 [details]
additional source
Lawn, I. D.; Ross, D. M. (1982). The behavioural physiology of the swimming sea anemone Boloceroides mcmurrichi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 216, 315-334 page(s): 318 [details]
additional source
Ono, S.; Reimer, J. D.; Tsukahara, J. (2005). Reproduction of Zoanthus sansibaricus in the infra-littoral zone at Taisho Lava Field, Sakurajima, Kagoshima, Japan. Zoological Science, 22, 247-255 page(s): 249 [details]
additional source
Sheppard, C. R. C. (1985). Fringing reefs in the southern region, Jeddah to Jizan. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 37-58 page(s): 45 [details]
additional source
Sheppard, C. R. C.; Sheppard, A. L. S. (1985). The central Red Sea at Yanbu al Sinaiyah. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 17-36 page(s): 27, 30 [details]
additional source
Ono, S.; Reimer, J. D.; Tsukahara, J. (2007). Thriving cnidarian community on the volcanic coastline of Sakurajima Taisho Lava Field, southern Japan. Coral Reefs, 26, 95 page(s): 95 [details]
additional source
Lasker, H. R. (1983). Vegetative reproduction in the octocoral Briareum asbestinum (Pallas). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 72, 157-169 page(s): 162 [details]
additional source
Medina, M.; Collins, A. G.; Takaoka, T. L.; Kuehl, J. V.; Boore, J. L. (2006). Naked corals: skeleton loss in Scleractinia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103(24): 9096-9100 page(s): 9097 [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): 81, 82 [details]
additional source
Severance, E. G.; Karl, S. A. (2006). Contrasting population genetic structures of sympatric, mass-spawning Caribbean corals. Marine Biology, 150, 57-68 page(s): 58, 71 [details]
additional source
Forsman, Z. H.; Concepcion, G. T.; Haverkort, R. D.; Shaw, R. W.; Maragos, J. E.; Toonen, R. J. (2010). Ecomorph or endangered coral? DNA and microstructure reveal Hawaiian species complexes: Montipora dilatata/flabellata/turgescens & M. patula/verilli. Public Library of Science One, 5, 12, 1-10 page(s): 2 [details]
additional source
Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706 page(s): 703 [details]
additional source
Tkachenko, K. S.; Wu, B. J.; Fang, L. S.; Fan, T. Y. (2007). Dynamics of a coral reef community after mass mortality of branching Acropora corals and an outbreak of anemones. Marine Biology, 151, 185-194 page(s): 187 [details]
status source
Potts DC. (1995). Porites Link, 1807, Galaxea Oken, 1815, Mussa Oken, 1815 and Dendrophyllia Blainville, 1830 (Anthozoa, Scleractinia): proposed conservation. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 52: 142-147. [details]
status source
ICZN. (2004). Opinion 2061 (Case 2900) Porites Link, 1807, Galaxea Oken, 1815, Mussa Oken, 1815 and Dendrophyllia Blainville, 1830 (Anthozoa, Scleractinia): proposed conservation. <em>The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 61: 51-53., available online at https://archive.org/details/biostor-80457 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype WAM 239-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 269-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 372-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 399-80, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 399-80, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 400-80, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 400-80, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 446-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 446-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 58-87, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 588-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 59-87, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 60-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 60-87, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 816-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 816-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 850-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 878-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
From other sources
Description Colonies are flat (foliaceous or encrusting), massive or branching. Massive colonies are spherical or hemispherical when small and helmet- or dome-shaped when large, and are commonly over 5 m in diameter. Corallites are small, immersed, with calices less than 2 mm in diameter and filled with septa. Polyps are usually extended only at night (Veron, 1986).
Corallites often very small (<2 mm across), but colonies very large. Colonies domed; can reach up to 8 m in height (Richmond, 1997). [details]
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Remark Type species: Porites polymorphus Link, 1807 (= Porites porites Pallas, 1766 (Veron, 1986). [details]
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English |
jeweled toejeweled fingerjewel stonefinger coral |
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Japanese |
ハマサンゴ属 |
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