UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) - Fungia seychellensis Hoeksema, 1993

WoRMS name details

Fungia seychellensis Hoeksema, 1993

AphiaID

207345 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207345)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Pleuractis seychellensis (Hoeksema, 1993)

Rank

Species

Parent

Fungia Lamarck, 1801

Original name

Fungia (Pleuractis) seychellensis Hoeksema, 1993

Environment

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

Original description

(of Fungia (Pleuractis) seychellensis Hoeksema, 1993) Hoeksema, B.W. 1993. Historical biogeography of Fungia (Pleuractis) spp. (Scleractinia: Fungiidae), including a new species from the Seychelles). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 67: 639-654. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Fungia seychellensis Hoeksema, 1993. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207345 on 2025-05-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-06-02 12:05:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

changed

van der Land, Jacob

2013-01-24 18:51:11Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2014-06-02 17:13:55Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2020-08-02 09:28:08Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-06-13 16:24:44Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Fungia (Pleuractis) seychellensis Hoeksema, 1993) Hoeksema, B.W. 1993. Historical biogeography of Fungia (Pleuractis) spp. (Scleractinia: Fungiidae), including a new species from the Seychelles). Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden 67: 639-654. [details]

Other

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. Atoll Research Bulletin. 459: 13-46.
page(s): 33 [details]

additional source Gittenberger A, Reijnen BT, Hoeksema BW. (2011). A molecularly based phylogeny reconstruction of mushroom corals (Scleractinia: Fungiidae) with taxonomic consequences and evolutionary implications for life history traits. Contributions to Zoology. 80: 107-132., available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/18759866-08002002 [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): 429, 436, 437 [details] Available for editors

[request]

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

additional source Hoeksema, B.W. & Best, M.B. 1994. Stony reef corals. In: J. van der Land (ed.) Oceanic Reefs of the Seychelles. Netherlands Indian Ocean Programme 2: 81-92. [details]

additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume II: Families Astrocoeniidae, Pocilloporidae, Euphyllidae, Oculinidae, Meandrinidae, Siderastreidae, Agariciidae, Fungiidae, Rhizangiidae, Pectiniidae, Merulinidae, Dendrophylliidae, Caryophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 2, pp. 429.
page(s): 279 [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): 54, 58, Plate 3 Fig 11a-c [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Biology zooxanthellate [details]

Language	Name
English	mushroom coral	[details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record)
To ITIS