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WoRMS name detailsEuphyllia paraancora Veron, 1990
289217 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:289217)
unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Species
marine,
Veron JEN. (1990). New Scleractinia from Japan and other Indo-West Pacific countries. <em>Galaxea.</em> 9: 95-173. [details] Available for editors
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Description This species has phacellloid corallites up to 4 cm across. They are mostly monocentric to tri-centric, due to...
Description This species has phacellloid corallites up to 4 cm across. They are mostly monocentric to tri-centric, due to intratentacular budding. Tentacles are always extended during the day, and have distinctive, kidney shaped tips. Euphyllia ancora has similar tentacles, but the calices are meandroid, not mono- to tri-centric. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Euphyllia paraancora Veron, 1990. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=289217 on 2025-04-21
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
Veron JEN. (1990). New Scleractinia from Japan and other Indo-West Pacific countries. <em>Galaxea.</em> 9: 95-173. [details] Available for editors [request]basis of record 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] new combination reference Luzon K.S., Lin M.-F., Ablan Lagman M.C.A., Licuanan W.R.Y., Chen C.A. (2018). Correction: Resurrecting a subgenus to genus: molecular phylogeny of Euphyllia and Fimbriaphyllia (order Scleractinia; family Euphylliidae; clade V). <em>PeerJ.</em> 6: e4074/correction-1., available online at https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.4074/correction-1 [details] Othercontext source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [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 Sheppard, C.R.C. (1998). Corals of the Indian Ocean: a taxonomic and distribution database for coral reef ecologists [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): 22 [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): 74-75 [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Biology zooxanthellate [details]Unreviewed
Description This species has phacellloid corallites up to 4 cm across. They are mostly monocentric to tri-centric, due to intratentacular budding. Tentacles are always extended during the day, and have distinctive, kidney shaped tips. Euphyllia ancora has similar tentacles, but the calices are meandroid, not mono- to tri-centric. (Sheppard, 1998 <308>) [details]
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