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Pectinia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)

Pectinia lactuca
Pectinia lactuca

207378  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207378)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Vacatina (Suborder)
  8. Merulinidae (Family)
  9. Pectinia (Genus)
  10. Pectinia lactuca (Species)
accepted
Species
Madrepora (Tridacophyllia) lactuca Pallas, 1766 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Madrepora lactuca Pallas, 1766 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Manicina lactuca (Pallas, 1766) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Mycedium lactuca (Pallas, 1766) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Pavona lactuca (Pallas, 1766) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Pavonia lactuca (Pallas, 1766) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Pectinia symphylloides (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Tridacophyllia laciniata var. japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Tridacophyllia lactuca tanabensis Yabe & Sugiyama, 1936 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Tridacophyllia manicina Dana, 1846 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Tridacophyllia rectifolia Saville-Kent, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Tridacophyllia symphylloides Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Madrepora lactuca Pallas, 1766) Pallas, P. S. (1766). Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis. <em>[book].</em> pp. 451, Fransiscum Varrentrapp, Hagae., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6019361 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Neotype  (of Madrepora lactuca Pallas, 1766) NHMUK...  
Neotype (of Madrepora lactuca Pallas, 1766) NHMUK 1987.6.1.1, verbatimGeounit 'Mare Americanum?' (... [details]
, Note unrecorded (Veron, 1986).  
Unverified
Type locality unrecorded (Veron, 1986). [details]
Description A foliaceous coral, with numerous vertical "leaves", which are really meandroid series of corallites with very tall, thin...  
Description A foliaceous coral, with numerous vertical "leaves", which are really meandroid series of corallites with very tall, thin walls. In this species, the walls are all of similar, regular height. Smaller, secondary corallites occur on the sides of the walls as well as along the valley floor. While this genus contains some colourful corals, this species is generally a relatively dull brown or green. A single colony may exceed a metre diameter. Its preferred habitat is in sheltered water such as lagoons and back-reef areas. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>)
Colonies have elongate valleys and walls, the latter of relatively uniform height. Most valleys can be traced from the colony margins to the centre. Colour: uniform grey, brown or green. Abundance: common on lower reef slopes and in turbid water habitats where colonies frequently exceed 1 m in diameter. (Veron, 1986 <57>)
Specimens are always distinctive and striking as they have prominent walls or spire-like lobes with septo-costae between the polyps. The thin, high, irregular walls are of uniform height and meander from the colony centre. Colour: usually greyish-green. Habitat: turbid waters and base of reefs. (Richmond, 1997) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Pectinia lactuca (Pallas, 1766). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207378 on 2024-10-08
Date
action
by
1997-01-31 16:37:49Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z
changed
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
changed
van der Land, Jacob
2014-03-15 10:57:36Z
changed
Hoeksema, Bert
2022-05-15 06:23:49Z
changed
Hoeksema, Bert

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original description  (of Madrepora lactuca Pallas, 1766) Pallas, P. S. (1766). Elenchus zoophytorum sistens generum adumbrationes generaliores et specierum cognitarum succintas descriptiones, cum selectis auctorum synonymis. <em>[book].</em> pp. 451, Fransiscum Varrentrapp, Hagae., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6019361 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

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

original description  (of Tridacophyllia symphylloides Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Quatrième mémoire. Monographie des astréides(1). Tribu II. Astréens (Astreinae). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Série 3, Zoologie.</em> 11: 233–312. [details]   

original description  (of Tridacophyllia rectifolia Saville-Kent, 1891) Saville-Kent W (1891) Notes on new and little known Australian Madroporaceae. Records of the Australian Museum 1: 123-124, pls. 15-17. [details]   

original description  (of Tridacophyllia laciniata var. japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1932). Reef corals found in the Japanese Seas. <em>The Science reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai. 2nd Series (Geologie).</em> 15: 143-168. [details]   

original description  (of Tridacophyllia lactuca tanabensis Yabe & Sugiyama, 1936) Yabe H, Sugiyama T, Eguchi M. (1936). Recent reef-building corals from Japan and the South Sea Islands under the Japanese mandate. I. <em>The Science reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai, 2nd Series (Geologie).</em> Special Volume 1: 1-66, pls. 1-59. [details]   

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]   

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

additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 459: 13-46.
page(s): 36 [details]   

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]   

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  PDF available [request] 

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 Veron JEN. (2002). New species described in Corals of the World. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 11: 1-209.
page(s): 122, 123 [details]   

additional source Scheer G, Pillai CSG. (1974). Report on Scleractinia from the Nicobar Islands. <em>Zoologica, Stuttgart.</em> 42(122): 1-75.
page(s): 10, 60-61, 75, plate 28 [details]   

additional source Pillai CSG, Scheer G (1976) Report on the stony corals from the Maldive Archipelago. Results of the Xarifa Expedition 1957/58. Zoologica, Stuttgart 43 (126): 1-83, pls. 1-32. [details]   

additional source Chevalier JP. (1975). Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). II. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie. 7: 1-407, pls. 1-42. Paris. [details]   

additional source Nemenzo F (1959) Systematic studies on Philippine shallow water scleractinians: II. Suborder Faviida. Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines 16: 73-135, pls. 1-24.
page(s): 76, 124 [details]   

additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33.
page(s): 33 [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. [details]   

additional source Faustino LA. (1927). Recent Madreporaria of the Philippine Islands. <em>Bureau of Science Manila Monograph.</em> 22: 1-310, pls. 1-100.
page(s): 40, 158, 160, 161 [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): 32, 90 [details]   

additional source Utinomi, H. (1965). A revised catalogue of scleractinian corals from the southwest coast of Shikoku in the collections of the Ehime University and the Ehime Prefectural Museum, Matsuyama. <em>Publications of the Seto Marine Biological Laboratory.</em> 13(3): 243-261., available online at https://doi.org/10.5134/175404
page(s): 253 [details]   

additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume II: Families Astrocoeniidae, Pocilloporidae, Euphyllidae, Oculinidae, Meandrinidae, Siderastreidae, Agariciidae, Fungiidae, Rhizangiidae, Pectiniidae, Merulinidae, Dendrophylliidae, Caryophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 2, pp. 429.
page(s): 350-351 [details]   

additional source Pillai CSG. (1983). Structure and generic diversity of recent Scleractinia of India. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 25, 1-2, 78-90.
page(s): 88 [details]   

additional source Veron, J. E. N.; Pichon, M. (1979). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia, part III: Families Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectiniidae, Caryophylliidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra., volume 4, pp. 422.
page(s): 7, 325, 329, 330-331, 333 [details]   

additional source Jeyabaskaran, R. (2009). New records of corals from Lakshadweep islands. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 109, 1, 53-64
page(s): 55, 59, Plate 3 Fig 13a-b [details]   

additional source Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 63, 101, 112 [details]   

new combination reference Oken, L. (1815-1816). Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil: Zoologie. <em>Erste Abtheilung: Fleischlose Thiere,Leipzig: C.H. Reclam & Jena: A. Schmid, [book (3rd vol part one, of 3 vols, including plates atlas of T.1, 1813].</em> xxviii + 842 pp. + xviii, 40 pls. L [copepods 180-184, 357-359, 4 plates]., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.166403 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Neotype (of Madrepora lactuca Pallas, 1766) NHMUK 1987.6.1.1, verbatimGeounit 'Mare Americanum?' (... [details]
Nontype (of Pectinia symphylloides (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)) MSI U.P.C.-1349 [details]
Nontype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)) IGPS 38525, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)) IGPS 39808, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)) IGPS 40315, geounit Taiwanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)) IGPS 40359-40361, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)) IGPS 53022, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)) IGPS 56553, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 127-70, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 151-16, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 151-7, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 151-8, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 151-9, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR 8921, geounit Kenyan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR I/393/E3 [details]
Nontype WAM 326-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 327-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 525-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 526-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 550-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 6-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca tanabensis Yabe & Sugiyama, 1936) IGPS 40377, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 39112, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 39113, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 40296, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 40297, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 40325, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 40351, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 40352, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 40369, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 40370, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 40372, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 40376, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 40448, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 40479-40481, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 44909, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Paratype (of Tridacophyllia lactuca japonica Yabe & Sugiyama, 1932) IGPS 44915, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type (of Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)) IMC mrt-02, geounit Myanmar Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type (of Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)) IMC mrt-37, geounit Myanmar Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type (of Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)) IMC mrt-40, geounit Myanmar Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type (of Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)) IMC mrt-62, geounit Myanmar Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type (of Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)) IMC mrt-86, geounit Myanmar Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type (of Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)) IMC sep-03 [details]
Unknown type (of Tridacophyllia lactuca (Pallas, 1766)) IMC Zev 7354/7, geounit Myanmar Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]

Unverified
Description A foliaceous coral, with numerous vertical "leaves", which are really meandroid series of corallites with very tall, thin walls. In this species, the walls are all of similar, regular height. Smaller, secondary corallites occur on the sides of the walls as well as along the valley floor. While this genus contains some colourful corals, this species is generally a relatively dull brown or green. A single colony may exceed a metre diameter. Its preferred habitat is in sheltered water such as lagoons and back-reef areas. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>)
Colonies have elongate valleys and walls, the latter of relatively uniform height. Most valleys can be traced from the colony margins to the centre. Colour: uniform grey, brown or green. Abundance: common on lower reef slopes and in turbid water habitats where colonies frequently exceed 1 m in diameter. (Veron, 1986 <57>)
Specimens are always distinctive and striking as they have prominent walls or spire-like lobes with septo-costae between the polyps. The thin, high, irregular walls are of uniform height and meander from the colony centre. Colour: usually greyish-green. Habitat: turbid waters and base of reefs. (Richmond, 1997) [details]

Type locality unrecorded (Veron, 1986). [details]
    Definitions

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LanguageName 
English common lettuce coralcarnation coral  [details]
German Knüllpapierkoralle  [details]
Japanese スジウミバラ  [details]
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pectinia lactuca) 
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Madrepora lactuca Pallas, 1766)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 3 proteins) 
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (28 records) 
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Pectinia lactuca
Pectinia lactuca
Neotype of Madrepora lactuca Pallas, 1766
Neotype of Madrepora lactuca Pallas, 1766
Image from synonym
Unverified
Pectinia lactuca DMS
Pectinia lactuca DMS
Pectinia lactuca LettuceCoral DMS
Pectinia lactuca LettuceCoral DMS
Pectinia lactuca1 DMS
Pectinia lactuca1 DMS

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