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WoRMS taxon detailsPlatygyra pini Chevalier, 1975
 207490 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207490)
accepted
Species
Platygyra pini var. isolata Chevalier, 1975 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Platygyra pini var. spongiosa Chevalier, 1975 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine,
Chevalier JP. (1975). Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). II. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie. 7: 1-407, pls. 1-42. Paris. [details]
Type locality contained in Chesterfield Archipelago
type locality contained in Chesterfield Archipelago [details]
Unreviewed
Type locality Chesterfield Reefs, eastern Coral Sea (Veron, 1986). [details]
Description Colonies are massive to encrusting, subcerioid to submeandroid with thick walls. Septa are thin and widely spaced. There...
Description Colonies are massive to encrusting, subcerioid to submeandroid with thick walls. Septa are thin and widely spaced. There may be some development of columella centres and/ or paliform lobes. Colour: grey- or yellow-brown with green or cream centres. Abundance: usually uncommon.(Veron, 1986 <57>) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Platygyra pini Chevalier, 1975. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207490 on 2025-05-04
Date action by
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Chevalier JP. (1975). Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). II. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie. 7: 1-407, pls. 1-42. Paris. [details] original description (of Platygyra pini var. spongiosa Chevalier, 1975) Chevalier JP. (1975). Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). II. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie. 7: 1-407, pls. 1-42. Paris. [details] original description (of Platygyra pini var. isolata Chevalier, 1975) Chevalier JP. (1975). Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). II. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie. 7: 1-407, pls. 1-42. Paris. [details] basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details] Othercontext source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M, Wijsman-Best M. (1977). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph series.</em> 3: 1-233. [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): 30 [details] additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137. page(s): 133 [details] additional source 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] 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 Wijsman-Best M (1976) Biological results of the Snellius expedition: XXVII. Faviidae collected by the Snellius Expedition. II. The genera Favites, Goniastrea, Platygyra, Oulophyllia, Leptoria, Hydnophora and Caulastrea. Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 50: 45-63. [details] additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33. page(s): 23, 32 [details] additional source Huang D, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Budd AF (2014) Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12140 [details] additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555 page(s): 32, 108 [details] additional source Randall RH, Myers RF. (1983). The corals. Guide to the Coastal Resources of Guam: Vol. 2. <em>University of Guam Press, Guam, pp. 128.</em> [details] additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume III: Families Mussidae, Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae, Poritidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 3, pp. 490. page(s): 178-179 [details] additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details] additional source Jeyabaskaran, R. (2009). New records of corals from Lakshadweep islands. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, 109, 1, 53-64 page(s): 55, 60, Plate 4 Fig 17 [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): 63, 94, 112 [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype NMSR 9039, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR I/429/E3 [details]
Nontype WAM 152-74, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 189-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 197-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 200-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 234-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 235-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 237-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 249-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 267-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 296-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 308-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 308-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 421-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 424-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 521-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 598-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 720-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 795-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 796-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 804-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 820-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 831-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 832-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 849-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 861-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 869-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 886-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 901-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 904-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]Unreviewed
Description Colonies are massive to encrusting, subcerioid to submeandroid with thick walls. Septa are thin and widely spaced. There may be some development of columella centres and/ or paliform lobes. Colour: grey- or yellow-brown with green or cream centres. Abundance: usually uncommon.(Veron, 1986 <57>) [details]Type locality Chesterfield Reefs, eastern Coral Sea (Veron, 1986). [details]
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To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Platygyra pini) To GenBank (52 nucleotides; 17 proteins) To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (49 records) To ITIS |
