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Porites Link, 1807

206485  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206485)

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  1. Species Porites aculeata Michelotti, 1838 †
  2. Species Porites alveolata Milne Edwards, 1860
  3. Species Porites amplectans Felix, 1921 †
  4. Species Porites anguillensis Vaughan, 1919 †
  5. Species Porites annae Crossland, 1952
  6. Species Porites aranetai Nemenzo, 1955
  7. Species Porites arnaudi Reyes-Bonilla & Carricart-Ganivet, 2000
  8. Species Porites astreoides Lamarck, 1816
  9. Species Porites attenuata Nemenzo, 1955
  10. Species Porites australiensis Vaughan, 1918
  11. Species Porites baracoaensis Vaughan, 1919 †
  12. Species Porites belli Gregory, 1900 †
  13. Species Porites branneri Rathbun, 1888
  14. Species Porites brighami Vaughan, 1907
  15. Species Porites calabricae Chevalier, 1961 †
  16. Species Porites californica Bernard, 1905 (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, unavailable name?)
  17. Species Porites carrizensis Vaughan, 1917 †
  18. Species Porites chipolanum Weisbord, 1971 †
  19. Species Porites cocosensis Wells, 1950
  20. Species Porites colonensis Zlatarski, 1990
  21. Species Porites columnaris Klunzinger, 1879
  22. Species Porites compressa Dana, 1846
  23. Species Porites convivatoris Foster, 1986 †
  24. Species Porites cribripora Dana, 1846
  25. Species Porites cumulatus Nemenzo, 1955
  26. Species Porites cylindrica Dana, 1846
  27. Species Porites decasepta Claereboudt, 2006
  28. Species Porites deformis Nemenzo, 1955
  29. Species Porites densa Vaughan, 1918
  30. Species Porites deshayesana Michelin, 1844 †
  31. Species Porites desilveri Veron, 2000
  32. Species Porites discoidea Studer, 1901 (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym)
  33. Species Porites divaricata Le Sueur, 1820
  34. Species Porites diversiformis (Michelotti, 1871) †
  35. Species Porites echinulata Klunzinger, 1879
  36. Species Porites eridani Umbgrove, 1940
  37. Species Porites evermanni Vaughan, 1907
  38. Species Porites exserta Pillai, 1967
  39. Species Porites farasani Benzoni & Terraneo, 2019
  40. Species Porites farquharsoni Latham, 1829 †
  41. Species Porites flavus Veron, 2000
  42. Species Porites fontanesii Benzoni & Stefani, 2012
  43. Species Porites furcata Lamarck, 1816
  44. Species Porites gabonensis Gravier, 1910 (accepted > nomen novum)
  45. Species Porites gaimardi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
  46. Species Porites gajensis Duncan, 1880 †
  47. Species Porites guadalupensis Bernard, 1906 (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, unavailable name?)
  48. Species Porites hadramauti Benzoni & Terraneo, 2019
  49. Species Porites harrisoni Veron, 2000
  50. Species Porites hawaiensis Bernard, 1905
  51. Species Porites hawaiiensis Vaughan, 1907 (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym)
  52. Species Porites heronensis Veron, 1985
  53. Species Porites horizontalata Hoffmeister, 1925
  54. Species Porites incrassata Reuss, 1866 †
  55. Species Porites incrustans (Defrance, 1826) †
  56. Species Porites indica Duncan, 1880 †
  57. Species Porites latistellata Quelch, 1886
  58. Species Porites leiophylla Reuss, 1848 †
  59. Species Porites leptoclada Reuss, 1872 †
  60. Species Porites lichen (Dana, 1846)
  61. Species Porites lobata Dana, 1846
  62. Species Porites lobatosepta Chevalier, 1961 †
  63. Species Porites lutea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
  64. Species Porites macdonaldi Vaughan, 1919 †
  65. Species Porites maigensis Kühn, 1925 †
  66. Species Porites mancietensis Chevalier, 1961 †
  67. Species Porites mannarensis Pillai, 1967
  68. Species Porites mayeri Vaughan, 1918
  69. Species Porites micrantha Reuss, 1869 †
  70. Species Porites microsiderea (Catullo, 1857) †
  71. Species Porites minicoiensis Pillai, 1967
  72. Species Porites monticulosa Dana, 1846
  73. Species Porites multilamellata Gregory, 1925 †
  74. Species Porites murrayensis Vaughan, 1918
  75. Species Porites myrmidonensis Veron, 1985
  76. Species Porites napopora Veron, 2000
  77. Species Porites negrosensis Veron, 1990
  78. Species Porites nigrescens Dana, 1846
  79. Species Porites nodifera Klunzinger, 1879
  80. Species Porites okinawensis Veron, 1990
  81. Species Porites ornata Nemenzo, 1971 (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym)
  82. Species Porites palmata Dana, 1846
  83. Species Porites panamensis Verrill, 1866
  84. Species Porites panamensis Vaughan, 1919 † (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym)
  85. Species Porites panamensis Bernard, 1905 (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym, unavailable name?)
  86. Species Porites panicea (Blainville, 1834) †
  87. Species Porites pellegrinii Duncan, 1880 †
  88. Species Porites polystyla Reuss, 1874 †
  89. Species Porites porites (Pallas, 1766)
  90. Species Porites portoricensis (Vaughan, 1919) †
  91. Species Porites profundus Rehberg, 1892
  92. Species Porites pukoensis Vaughan, 1907
  93. Species Porites pusilla Felix, 1884 †
  94. Species Porites ramosa Catullo, 1857 †
  95. Species Porites randalli Forsman & Birkeland, 2009
  96. Species Porites rugosa Veron & Fenner, 2000
  97. Species Porites rus (Forskål, 1775)
  98. Species Porites sillimaniana Nemenzo, 1976
  99. Species Porites solida (Forskål, 1775)
  100. Species Porites somaliensis Gravier, 1910
  101. Species Porites spissus Počta, 1887 †
  102. Species Porites stephensoni Crossland, 1952
  103. Species Porites strata Martin, 1880 †
  104. Species Porites superfusa Gardiner, 1898
  105. Species Porites superposita Duncan, 1880 †
  106. Species Porites sverdrupi Durham, 1947
  107. Species Porites trinitatis Vaughan, 1926 † (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym)
  108. Species Porites tuberculosus Veron, 2000 (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym)
  109. Species Porites tuberosa Catullo, 1857 †
  110. Species Porites vaughani Crossland, 1952
  111. Species Porites waylandi Foster, 1986 †
  112. Species Porites duerdeni Vaughan, 1907 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  113. Species Porites mammillata Reuss, 1854 † (uncertain > unassessed)
  114. Species Porites studeri Vaughan, 1907 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  115. Species Porites baueri Squires, 1959 accepted as Porites lobata Dana, 1846 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  116. Species Porites bernardi Gravier, 1909 accepted as Porites gabonensis Gravier, 1910 (unaccepted > junior homonym)
  117. Species Porites cumulatus Claereboudt, 2006 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
  118. Species Porites ericacea Claereboudt, 2006 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
  119. Species Porites excavata Verrill, 1870 accepted as Porites lobata Dana, 1846 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  120. Species Porites latistella Quelch, 1886 accepted as Porites latistellata Quelch, 1886 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
  121. Species Porites nodulosa Verrill, 1870 accepted as Porites panamensis Verrill, 1866 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  122. Species Porites ornata Michelloti, 1838 † accepted as Madracis ornata (Michelotti, 1838) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  123. Species Porites pachysepta Chevalier, 1961 † accepted as Porites maigensis Kühn, 1925 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  124. Species Porites rugosus Fenner & Veron, 2000 accepted as Porites rugosa Veron & Fenner, 2000 (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
  125. Species Porites silimaniana Nemenzo, 1976 accepted as Porites sillimaniana Nemenzo, 1976 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
  126. Species Porites tuberculosa Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Montipora tuberculosa (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  127. Species Porites tuberculosa Veron, 2000 accepted as Porites tuberculosus Veron, 2000 (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet, homonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Link, D. H. F. (1806-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben, Rostock; 1, pp. 1-50 [1806]; 2, pp. 51-100 [1807]; 3, pp. 101-165 [1807]; 4, pp. 1-30 [1807]; 5, pp. 1-38 [1808]; 6, pp. 1-38 [1808]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43301237 [details] OpenAccess publication
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Porites Link, 1807. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206485 on 2026-05-17
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Porites Link, 1807. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206485 on 2026-05-17
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1997-02-03 14:17:27Z
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2000-09-13 07:19:12Z
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Garcia, Maria
2013-08-22 06:50:21Z
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2014-04-13 21:57:04Z
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2018-08-11 13:02:37Z
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2022-05-14 09:41:15Z
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original description Link, D. H. F. (1806-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben, Rostock; 1, pp. 1-50 [1806]; 2, pp. 51-100 [1807]; 3, pp. 101-165 [1807]; 4, pp. 1-30 [1807]; 5, pp. 1-38 [1808]; 6, pp. 1-38 [1808]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43301237 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [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, 427-428, 430 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Steiner, S.C.C., 2003. Stony corals and reefs of Dominica. Atoll Res. Bull. : 497-508.
page(s): 3, 5, 10 [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): 33, 67 [details] 

additional source Benzoni, F., Stefani, F., Pichon, M., Galli, P. 2010. The name game: morpho-molecular species boundaries in the genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 421-456., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00622.x
page(s): 422, 437 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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 Verrill, A.E. 1870. Descriptions of echinoderms and corals from the Gulf of California. American Journal of Science 49: 93-100., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36445101
page(s): 100 [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. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.42.379
page(s): 387, 389, 391, 401 [details] 

additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Forsman, Z. H.; Birkeland, C. (2009). Porites randalli: a new coral species (Scleractinia, Poritidae) from American Samoa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2244: 51-59., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2244.1.2
page(s): 52 [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 Kitano YF, Benzoni F, Arrigoni R, Shirayama Y, Wallace CC, Fukami H. (2014). A Phylogeny of the Family Poritidae (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) Based on Molecular and Morphological Analyses. <em>PLoS ONE.</em> 9(5): e98406., available online at https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0098406 [details] 

additional source Foster AB. (1986). Neogene Paleontology in the northern Dominican Republic 3. The family Poritidae (Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology. 90 (325): 47-123, pls. 15-38.</em> [details] 

additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1980). Caribbean Shallow Water Corallimorpharia. Zoologische Verhandelingen, (176): 83 pp.
page(s): 68 [details] 

additional source Verrill, A. E. (1866). 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. Part III. Madreporaria. Communications of the Essex Institute, 5(2): 17-32
page(s): 25 [details] 

additional source McMurrich, J. P. (1904). The Actiniae of the Plate collection. Zoologische Jahrbücher, 6 Suppl.(2): 215-306
page(s): 217 [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.
page(s): 173 [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 Maragos, J. E.; Schmerfeld, J. (2004). Coral survey from Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge, 1998-2004 [Table 3]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details] 

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
page(s): 1 [details] 

additional source Echeverría, C. A.; Pires, D. de Oliveira; Medeiros, M. S.; Castro, C. B. (1997). Cnidarians of the Atol das Rocas, Brazil. Proceedings of the Eighth International Coral Reef Symposium, 1, 443-446
page(s): 445 [details] 

additional source Lawn, I. D.; Ross, D. M. (1982). The behavioural physiology of the swimming sea anemone Boloceroides mcmurrichi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 216, 315-334, available online at https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1982.0077
page(s): 318 [details] 

additional source Ono, S.; Reimer, J. D.; Tsukahara, J. (2005). Reproduction of Zoanthus sansibaricus in the infra-littoral zone at Taisho Lava Field, Sakurajima, Kagoshima, Japan. Zoological Science, 22, 247-255, available online at https://doi.org/10.2108/zsj.22.247
page(s): 249 [details] 

additional source Sheppard, C. R. C. (1985). Fringing reefs in the southern region, Jeddah to Jizan. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 37-58
page(s): 45 [details] 

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): 27, 30 [details] 

additional source Ono, S.; Reimer, J. D.; Tsukahara, J. (2007). Thriving cnidarian community on the volcanic coastline of Sakurajima Taisho Lava Field, southern Japan. Coral Reefs, 26, 95
page(s): 95 [details] 

additional source Lasker, H. R. (1983). Vegetative reproduction in the octocoral Briareum asbestinum (Pallas). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 72, 157-169, available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/0022-0981(83)90141-7
page(s): 162 [details] 

additional source Medina, M.; Collins, A. G.; Takaoka, T. L.; Kuehl, J. V.; Boore, J. L. (2006). Naked corals: skeleton loss in Scleractinia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 103(24): 9096-9100, available online at https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0602444103
page(s): 9097 [details] 

additional source Reinicke, G. B.; Schuhmacher, H. (1996). Significance of different traits of soft-coral assemblages (Octocorallia, Alcyoniina) in benthic reef communities of the Red Sea. Göttinger Arbeiten zur Geologie Paläontologie, Sb2, 77-84
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additional source Severance, E. G.; Karl, S. A. (2006). Contrasting population genetic structures of sympatric, mass-spawning Caribbean corals. Marine Biology, 150, 57-68, available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-006-0332-2
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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
page(s): 2 [details] 

additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 703 [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] 

status source Potts DC. (1995). Porites Link, 1807, Galaxea Oken, 1815, Mussa Oken, 1815 and Dendrophyllia Blainville, 1830 (Anthozoa, Scleractinia): proposed conservation. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 52: 142-147., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.6750 [details] 

status source ICZN. (2004). Opinion 2061 (Case 2900) Porites Link, 1807, Galaxea Oken, 1815, Mussa Oken, 1815 and Dendrophyllia Blainville, 1830 (Anthozoa, Scleractinia): proposed conservation. <em>The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 61: 51-53., available online at https://archive.org/details/biostor-80457 [details] 
 
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