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Deep-Sea taxon details

Oculina Lamarck, 1816

AphiaID

135124 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135124)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Oculinidae Gray, 1847

Original name

Oculina Lamarck, 1816

Direct children (3)

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Species Oculina profunda Cairns, 1991
Species Oculina virgosa Squires, 1958
Species Oculina prolifera (Pallas, 1766) accepted as Desmophyllum pertusum (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

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]

Descriptive notes

Depth range 0-1050 m

Depth range 0-1050 m [details]

Fossil range Cretaceous to Recent

Fossil range Cretaceous to Recent [details]

Taxonomic citation

Deep-Sea (2025). Oculina Lamarck, 1816. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135124 on 2025-05-05

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Oculina Lamarck, 1816. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135124 on 2025-05-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2010-09-15 23:16:22Z

changed

Cairns, Stephen

2018-08-12 20:36:10Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-26 06:45:21Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-08-04 18:26:11Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-08-15 07:27:01Z

changed

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 Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Field, L. R. (1949). Sea Anemones and Corals of Beaufort, North Carolina. Duke University Press. Durham., pp. 39.
page(s): 6 [details]

additional source Zlatarski, V. N.; Estalella, N. M. (1980). Scleractinia of Cuba with data on the constituent organisms [in Bulgarian]. Bulgarian Academy of Science. Sophia., pp. 312.
page(s): 26, 96, 99, 101, 202, 244, 246, 250, 307, 310 [details]

additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia. [details]

additional source Durham JW. (1947). Corals from the Gulf of California and the north Pacific Coast of America. Memoirs of the Geological Society of America. 20: 1-68.
page(s): 4, 32 [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]

redescription Cairns, S.D. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. Studies on the Natural History of the Caribbean Region. 75: 1-231. [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Biology Zooxanthellate and azooxanthellate species [details]

Depth range 0-1050 m [details]

Fossil range Cretaceous to Recent [details]

Definitions

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Language	Name
English	ivory tree coralivory bush coralsivory bush coraleyed coral	[details]
German	Augenkorallen	[details]

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