Chinese Register of Marine Species - Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pocillopora damicornis

AphiaID

206953 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206953)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816

Original name

Millepora damicornis Linnaeus, 1758

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=206953 on 2026-07-01

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 damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206953 on 2026-07-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1996-10-25 12:24:58Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-09-13 07:19:12Z

changed

Garcia, Maria

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

changed

van der Land, Jacob

2014-03-28 10:52:19Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-10 10:52:12Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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To Barcode of Life (36 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (88 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pocillopora damicornis)
To Fishipedia
To GenBank (37633 nucleotides; 52167 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (302 records)
To ITIS

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Pocillopora damicornis