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Madrepora oculata Linnaeus 1758

Description

Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758

Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758: 798. — Cairns, 1982: 15, pl. 3, figs. 4–6 (synonymy and South American records).

New Record. —off Valdivia (39°59'S; 73°43'W), between 2000 and 2500 m, collected in 1994, IZUA­CNI­0009.

Remarks. —This is one of the approximately dozen cosmopolitan species of deepwater scleractinian corals; however, only one specimen is known from off Chile. It was also reported from the Drake Passage by Cairns (1982).

Notes

Published as part of Cairns, Stephen D., Häussermann, Verena & Försterra, Günter, 2005, A review of the Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Chile, with the description of two new species, pp. 15-46 in Zootaxa 1018 (1) on page 23, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1018.1.2, http://zenodo.org/record/5049374

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Oculinidae
Genus
Madrepora
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Scleractinia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Scientific name authorship
Linnaeus
Species
oculata
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758 sec. Cairns, Häussermann & Försterra, 2005

References

  • Cairns, S. D. (1982) Antarctic and Subantarctic Scleractinia. Antarctic Research Series, 34 (1), 74 pp., 18 pls., 14 maps.