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WoRMS taxon detailsPhysogyra lichtensteini (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851)
207497 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207497)
accepted
Species
Physogyra aperta Quelch, 1884 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Plerogyra lichtensteini Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
marine,
(of Plerogyra lichtensteini Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1851). Monographie des polypiers fossiles des terrains palaeozoïques, précédée d'un tableau général de la classification des polypes. <em>Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Archives.</em> 5: 1–502, 20 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25098869 [details]
Description Colonies are meandroid with short, widely separated valleys interconnected with a light blistery coenosteum. Septa are...
Description Colonies are meandroid with short, widely separated valleys interconnected with a light blistery coenosteum. Septa are large, imperforate. Columellae are absent. Polyps are extended only at night. During the day the whole colony surface is covered with a mass of vesicles the size and shape of grapes. These retract when disturbed. Colour: pale grey, sometimes dull green. Abundance: common in protected habitats, such as crevices and overhangs, especially in turbid water with tidal currents. (Veron, 1986 <57>) Similar to Plerogyra sinuosa, but vesicles are smaller. Corallites winding or meandering. Habitat: protected crevices, caves and under overhangs. (Richmond, 1997) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Physogyra lichtensteini (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207497 on 2025-02-10
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original description
(of Physogyra aperta 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 Plerogyra lichtensteini Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1851). Monographie des polypiers fossiles des terrains palaeozoïques, précédée d'un tableau général de la classification des polypes. <em>Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Archives.</em> 5: 1–502, 20 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25098869 [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): 23 [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  [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 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 [request]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 Nemenzo F, CJ Ferraris (1982) Some scleractinian corals from the reefs of Cebu and Mactan Islands. Kalikasan: The Philippine Journal of Biology 11: 111-135. page(s): 131-132, 133 [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 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, 119 [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): 92-93 [details] additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260(I): 385-486. page(s): 394, 471, pl. 178 [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): 8, 365, 366-370 [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): 54, 56, Plate 1 Fig 3 [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype (of Plerogyra lichtensteini Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851) IGPS 41993, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Plerogyra lichtensteini Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851) IGPS 56664, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype MSI 376-CC [details]
Nontype WAM 149-74, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 461-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 560-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 906-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]Unreviewed
Description Colonies are meandroid with short, widely separated valleys interconnected with a light blistery coenosteum. Septa are large, imperforate. Columellae are absent. Polyps are extended only at night. During the day the whole colony surface is covered with a mass of vesicles the size and shape of grapes. These retract when disturbed. Colour: pale grey, sometimes dull green. Abundance: common in protected habitats, such as crevices and overhangs, especially in turbid water with tidal currents. (Veron, 1986 <57>)Similar to Plerogyra sinuosa, but vesicles are smaller. Corallites winding or meandering. Habitat: protected crevices, caves and under overhangs. (Richmond, 1997) [details] Remark New combination in Sheppard, 1998. Type locality: "East Indies" (Veron, 1986). [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Physogyra lichtensteini) To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 36 proteins) (from synonym Plerogyra lichtensteini Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851) To GenBank (15 nucleotides; 36 proteins) To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (9 records) To ITIS |
