Chinese Register of Marine Species - Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816

Chinese
Register of
Marine Species
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ChaRMS taxon details

Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816

holotype of Pocillopora acuta Lamarck

AphiaID

206938 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206938)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Pocilloporidae Gray, 1840

Original name

Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816

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Species Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Pocillopora grandis Dana, 1846
Species Pocillopora meandrina Dana, 1846
Species Pocillopora verrucosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
Species Pocillopora woodjonesi Vaughan, 1918
Species Pocillopora eydouxi Milne Edwards, 1860 accepted as Pocillopora grandis Dana, 1846 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

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

Original description

Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome second, 566 pp. Paris, Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816. 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://marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206938 on 2026-09-12

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. Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206938 on 2026-09-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-03 14:17:27Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-09-13 08:59:56Z

changed

Govaerts, Ann

2006-09-27 07:06:07Z

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Martinez, Olga

2012-07-04 13:40:04Z

changed

Guiry, Michael D.

2014-01-16 09:30:36Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2014-04-21 09:20:09Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2018-08-07 07:43:01Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-20 17:56:48Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

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original description Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome second, 566 pp. Paris, Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details]

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

additional source Allen, G. R. (1972). The Anemonefishes: Their Classification and Biology. T. F. H. Publications, Inc. Ltd. Neptune City, New Jersey., pp. 288.
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additional source Bassett-Smith, P.W. (1890). Report on the corals from Tizard and Macclesfield Banks, China Sea. Annals and Magazine of Natural History,. 6(35): 353-374, 443-458, pls. 12-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008694050
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additional source DeFelice, R.; Minton, D.; Godwin, L. S. (2002). Records of Shallow-Water Marine Invertebrates from French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with a Note on Noningenous Species: Report to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Hawaii., pp. 78.
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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 Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
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additional source Forsman, Z. H.; Concepcion, G. T.; Haverkort, R. D.; Shaw, R. W.; Maragos, J. E.; Toonen, R. J. (2010). Ecomorph or endangered coral? DNA and microstructure reveal Hawaiian species complexes: Montipora dilatata/flabellata/turgescens & M. patula/verilli. Public Library of Science One, 5, 12, 1-10, available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0015021
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additional source Glynn PW (1999) Pocillopora inflata, a new species of scleractinian coral (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the tropical eastern Pacific. Pacific Science 53: 168-180.
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additional source Grigg, R. W. & F.M. Bayer. (1976). Present knowledge of the systematics and zoogeography of the order Gorgonacea in Hawaii. Pacific Science. 30(2): 167-175.
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additional source Maragos, J. E.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Rose Atoll coral data compiled from US Fish and Wildlife Service 1994, Townsend Cromwell 2002, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 10]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
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additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. Micronesica. 35-36: 121-137.
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additional source Robertson R. (1970). Review of the predators and parasites of stony Corals, with special reference to symbiotic Prosobranch Gastropods. Pacific Science 24 (1): 43-54
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additional source Schmidt-Roach S, Miller KJ, Lundgren P, Andreakis N (2014) With eyes wide open: a revision of species within and closely related to the Pocillopora damicornis species complex (Scleractinia; Pocilloporidae) using morphology and genetics. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170: 1-33., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12092 [details]

additional source Sheppard, C. R. C. (1985). Fringing reefs in the southern region, Jeddah to Jizan. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 37-58
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additional source Sheppard, C. R. C.; Sheppard, A. L. S. (1985). The central Red Sea at Yanbu al Sinaiyah. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 17-36
page(s): 29 [details]

additional source Tkachenko, K. S.; Wu, B. J.; Fang, L. S.; Fan, T. Y. (2007). Dynamics of a coral reef community after mass mortality of branching Acropora corals and an outbreak of anemones. Marine Biology, 151, 185-194
page(s): 187 [details]

additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1976). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia. Part I. Families Thamnasteriidae, Astroceoniidae, Pocilloporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series. 1: 1-86. [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 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): 390 [details]