Chinese Register of Marine Species - Fungia Lamarck, 1801

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Fungia Lamarck, 1801

Fungia fungites

AphiaID

206375 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206375)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Fungiidae Dana, 1846

Parent

Fungiidae Dana, 1846

Original name

Fungia Lamarck, 1801

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Species Fungia fungites (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Fungia concinna Verrill, 1864 accepted as Lithophyllon concinna (Verrill, 1864) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Fungia costulata Ortmann, 1889 accepted as Cycloseris costulata (Ortmann, 1889) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Fungia cyclolites Lamarck, 1815 accepted as Cycloseris cyclolites (Lamarck, 1815) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Fungia fragilis (Alcock, 1893) accepted as Cycloseris fragilis (Alcock, 1893) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Fungia granulosa Klunzinger, 1879 accepted as Pleuractis granulosa (Klunzinger, 1879) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Fungia gravis Nemenzo, 1955 accepted as Pleuractis gravis (Nemenzo, 1955) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Fungia horrida Dana, 1846 accepted as Danafungia horrida (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Fungia paumotensis Stutchbury, 1833 accepted as Pleuractis paumotensis (Stutchbury, 1833) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Fungia repanda Dana, 1846 accepted as Lithophyllon repanda (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Fungia scruposa Klunzinger, 1879 accepted as Danafungia scruposa (Klunzinger, 1879) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Fungia scutaria Lamarck, 1801 accepted as Lobactis scutaria (Lamarck, 1801) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Fungia sinensis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851) accepted as Cycloseris sinensis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Fungia taiwanensis Hoeksema & Dai, 1991 accepted as Pleuractis taiwanensis (Hoeksema & Dai, 1991) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym alternate presentation)
Species Fungia tenuis Dana, 1846 accepted as Cycloseris tenuis (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Fungia vaughani Boschma, 1923 accepted as Cycloseris vaughani (Boschma, 1923) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)

Environment

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

Original description

Lamarck, J. B. de. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris. : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Fungia Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2025) Chinese Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206375 on 2026-08-15

Regional species database citation

Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Fungia Lamarck, 1801. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206375 on 2026-08-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-03 14:17:27Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-07-18 15:57:33Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-12 06:54:36Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2013-01-24 18:51:11Z

checked

Hoeksema, Bert

2013-01-30 18:25:43Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2018-07-21 16:09:03Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-14 09:41:15Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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original description Lamarck, J. B. de. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris. : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 [details]

basis of record Hoeksema BW. (1989). Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden. 254: 1-295., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/149013 [details]

additional source 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. Contributions to Zoology. 80: 107-132., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-08002002 [details]

additional source Wells JW. (1966). Evolutionary development in the scleractinian family Fungiidae. In: Rees WJ (ed.) The Cnidaria and their evolution. Symposium of the Zoological Society of London Academic Press, London. 16: 223–246, pl. 1. [details] Available for editors

additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia. [details]

additional source Boschma H. (1923). The Madreporaria of the Siboga Expedition IV. Fungia patella. Siboga-Expedition (Brill, Leiden). XVId: 129-148, pls. 9-10.
page(s): 15 [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. Journal of the Geological Society of Japan. 42: 379-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.42.379
page(s): 387, 389, 391 [details]

additional source Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [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 Verrill AE. (1869). 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. Communications of the Essex Institute, Salem. 6 (1): 51-104, pls. 1-2., available online at https://doi.org/10.1086/270634
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additional source Gohar, H.A.F. (1940). Studies on the Xeniidae of the Red Sea: their ecology, physiology, taxonomy and phylogeny. Publications of the Marine Biological Station, Ghardaqa (Red Sea). 2: 25-118, plates 1-7.
page(s): 42 [details]

additional source Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1851). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 6. Monographie des Fongides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3. 15: 73-144. [details]

additional source Duerden, J. E. (1898). On the relations of certain Stichodactylinae to the Madreporaria. Journal of the Linnean Society of London (Zoology), 26, 635-653, available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb01740.x
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additional source Verrill, A. E. (1867). Madreporaria [continued]. Communications of the Essex Institute, 5, 33-50
page(s): 43-44 [details]

additional source Hoeksema, B. W.; Achituv, Y. (1993). First Indonesian record of Fungiacava eilatensis Goreau et al., 1968 (Bivalvia: Mytilidae), endosymbiont of Fungia spp. (Scleractinia: Fungiidae). Basteria, 57(4-6): 131-138
page(s): 131, 136 [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): 62, 83, 113 [details]

additional source Pickett JW. (2010). Fossil corals of Australia, New Zealand, New Guinea and Antarctica: bibliography and index. Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. 40: 1-189. [details]

additional source Weill, R., 1934. Contribution à l'étude des Cnidaires et de leurs nématocystes. II. Valeur taxonomique du cnidôme. Trav. Stn zool. Wimereux 11 : 349-701.
page(s): 357, 607, Fig. 418, 610, Fig. 425, 613, 616 [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., available online at https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00084.x
page(s): 424-425, 427-429 [details] Available for editors