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Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816

holotype of Pocillopora acuta Lamarck
holotype of Pocillopora acuta Lamarck

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

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Vacatina (Suborder)
  8. Pocilloporidae (Family)
  9. Pocillopora (Genus)
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Pocillopora acuta Lamarck, 1816 (type by subsequent designation)

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  1. Species Pocillopora acuta Lamarck, 1816
  2. Species Pocillopora aliciae Schmidt-Roach, Miller & Andreakis, 2013
  3. Species Pocillopora ankeli Scheer & Pillai, 1974
  4. Species Pocillopora arnoldi Vaughan, 1919 †
  5. Species Pocillopora bairdi Schmidt-Roach, 2014
  6. Species Pocillopora baracoaensis Vaughan, 1919 †
  7. Species Pocillopora brevicornis Lamarck, 1816
  8. Species Pocillopora capitata Verrill, 1864
  9. Species Pocillopora crassoramosa Duncan, 1864 †
  10. Species Pocillopora damicornis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  11. Species Pocillopora effusa Veron, 2000
  12. Species Pocillopora elegans Dana, 1846
  13. Species Pocillopora favosa Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834
  14. Species Pocillopora fungiformis Veron, 2000
  15. Species Pocillopora grandis Dana, 1846
  16. Species Pocillopora guantanamensis Vaughan, 1919 †
  17. Species Pocillopora indiania Veron, 2000
  18. Species Pocillopora inflata Glynn, 1999
  19. Species Pocillopora jenkinsi Reuss, 1866 †
  20. Species Pocillopora kelleheri Veron, 2000
  21. Species Pocillopora ligulata Dana, 1846
  22. Species Pocillopora maddenensis Budd, 1992 †
  23. Species Pocillopora madreporacea (Lamarck, 1816) †
  24. Species Pocillopora mauritiana Brüggemann, 1877
  25. Species Pocillopora meandrina Dana, 1846
  26. Species Pocillopora molokensis Vaughan, 1907
  27. Species Pocillopora portoricensis Coryell, 1929 †
  28. Species Pocillopora solida Umbgrove, 1926 †
  29. Species Pocillopora tuahiniensis Johnston & Burgess, 2023
  30. Species Pocillopora verrucosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
  31. Species Pocillopora vitiensis Hoffmeister, 1945 †
  32. Species Pocillopora woodjonesi Vaughan, 1918
  33. Species Pocillopora zelli Veron, 2000
  34. Species Pocillopora septata Gardiner, 1897 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  35. Species Pocillopora danae Verrill, 1864 accepted as Pocillopora verrucosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  36. Species Pocillopora effusus Veron, 2000 accepted as Pocillopora effusa Veron, 2000 (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
  37. Species Pocillopora eydouxi Milne Edwards, 1860 accepted as Pocillopora grandis Dana, 1846 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome second, 566 pp. Paris, Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details] OpenAccess publication
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206938 on 2026-02-21
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Pocillopora Lamarck, 1816. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206938 on 2026-02-21
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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
changed
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
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Hoeksema, Bert
2018-08-07 07:43:01Z
changed
Hoeksema, Bert
2022-05-20 17:56:48Z
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Hoeksema, Bert

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

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

additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1976). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia. Part I. Families Thamnasteriidae, Astroceoniidae, Pocilloporidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 1: 1-86. [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , 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. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137.
page(s): 127 [details] 

additional source Robertson R. (1970). Review of the predators and parasites of stony Corals, with special reference to symbiotic Prosobranch Gastropods. <i>Pacific Science 24 (1)</i>: 43-54
page(s): 46, 47, 48 [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 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): 390 [details] 

additional source Bassett-Smith, P.W. (1890). Report on the corals from Tizard and Macclesfield Banks, China Sea. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History,.</em> 6(35): 353-374, 443-458, pls. 12-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008694050
page(s): 357, 366 [details] 

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 Glynn PW (1999) Pocillopora inflata, a new species of scleractinian coral (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) from the tropical eastern Pacific. Pacific Science 53: 168-180.
page(s): 174, 175 [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 Allen, G. R. (1972). The Anemonefishes: Their Classification and Biology. T. F. H. Publications, Inc. Ltd. Neptune City, New Jersey., pp. 288.
page(s): 190 [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 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.
page(s): 51 [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): 51 [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): 29 [details] 

additional source Grigg, R. W. & F.M. Bayer. (1976). Present knowledge of the systematics and zoogeography of the order Gorgonacea in Hawaii. <em>Pacific Science.</em> 30(2): 167-175.
page(s): 173 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

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 Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 61, 66, 113 [details] 

additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 701 [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] 
 
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