African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Pleuractis granulosa (Klunzinger, 1879)

AfReMaS taxon details

Pleuractis granulosa (Klunzinger, 1879)

AphiaID

716549 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:716549)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pleuractis Verrill, 1864

Original name

Fungia granulosa Klunzinger, 1879

Synonymised names

Fungia granulosa Klunzinger, 1879 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Fungia granulosa Klunzinger, 1879) Klunzinger CB. (1879). Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres, 3. Theil: Die Steinkorallen. Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Asteraeaceen und Fungiaceen. 1-100, pls. 1-10. Gutmann, Berlin. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Pleuractis granulosa (Klunzinger, 1879). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716549 on 2026-01-08

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Pleuractis granulosa (Klunzinger, 1879). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=716549 on 2026-01-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2013-01-24 18:51:11Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2020-08-02 09:28:08Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-06-13 16:24:44Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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original description (of Fungia granulosa Klunzinger, 1879) Klunzinger CB. (1879). Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres, 3. Theil: Die Steinkorallen. Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Asteraeaceen und Fungiaceen. 1-100, pls. 1-10. Gutmann, Berlin. [details]

new combination reference Gittenberger A, Reijnen BT, Hoeksema BW. (2011). A molecularly based phylogeny reconstruction of mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) with taxonomic consequences and evolutionary implications for life history traits. <em>Contributions to Zoology.</em> 80: 107-132., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-08002002 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications) (from synonym Fungia granulosa Klunzinger, 1879)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Fungia granulosa Klunzinger, 1879)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pleuractis granulosa)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Fungia granulosa Klunzinger, 1879)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Fungia granulosa Klunzinger, 1879)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (25 records) (from synonym Fungia granulosa Klunzinger, 1879)