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Acropora digitifera

Description

Acropora digitifera (Dana, 1846)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: Observed and photographed on a current-exposed reef edge; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 234084F0-C800-58F8-89A9-D7EC13813727; Taxon: scientificNameID: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207045; scientificName: Acropora digitifera; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; taxonRank: Species; Location: continent: Africa; waterBody: Red Sea; country: Egypt; stateProvince: Muhafazah al Bahr al Ahmar; locality: Current-exposed coral reef located on the coastline of Egypt (Mangrove Bay), 29 km south of the coastal city of El Qoseir; verbatimDepth: 1; verbatimLatitude: N25°52.209′; verbatimLongitude: E034°25.181′; decimalLatitude: 25.87015; decimalLongitude: 34.4196833; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Event: samplingEffort: 3 x 20 m Line Intercept Transects; eventDate: 22-10 - 2023; year: 2023; habitat: current-exposed reef edge; Record Level: institutionCode: UNIVIE; collectionCode: Coral _ Reef-Mangrove _ Bay-Egypt- 2023; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: Observed and photographed on a sheltered reef edge; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 6CE31C97-1A22-54A0-96D2-51E023343597; Taxon: scientificNameID: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207045; scientificName: Acropora digitifera; kingdom: Animalia; phylum: Cnidaria; class: Anthozoa; taxonRank: Species; Location: continent: Africa; waterBody: Red Sea; country: Egypt; stateProvince: Muhafazah al Bahr al Ahmar; locality: Sheltered coral reef located on the coastline of Egypt (Mangrove Bay), 29 km south of the coastal city of El Qoseir; verbatimDepth: 1; verbatimLatitude: N25°52.183′; verbatimLongitude: E034°25.140′; decimalLatitude: 25.8697167; decimalLongitude: 34.419; geodeticDatum: WGS 84; Event: samplingEffort: 3 x 20 m Line Intercept Transects; eventDate: 19-10 - 2023; year: 2023; habitat: sheltered reef edge; Record Level: institutionCode: UNIVIE; collectionCode: Coral _ Reef-Mangrove _ Bay-Egypt- 2023; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation

Conservation status

Near Threatened

Notes

Fig. 3.

Notes

Published as part of Koch, Theres, Ivkić, Angelina, Jones, Lewis A, Scharnhorst, Victor S, Stix, Constanze M, Auer, Antonia, Schöchtner, Theda, Özer, Gözde, Steinwender, Simon, Wallace Daurella, Joseph & Zuschin, Martin, 2025, Quantifying diversity and growth form distribution of scleractinian corals, in Mangrove Bay, El Qoseir, Egypt, pp. e 134282 in Biodiversity Data Journal 13 on page e134282, DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e134282

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Identifiers

URL
http://treatment.plazi.org/id/095BF01897665A238137691698FAA872

Related works

Cites
Figure: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e134282.figure3 (DOI)
Figure: https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1096523 (URL)
Is part of
Journal article: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e134282 (DOI)
Journal article: http://publication.plazi.org/id/9F47CD2E1C8C58659B29844BAFFDA304 (URL)
Is source of
https://biodiversitypmc.sibils.org/collections/plazi/095BF01897665A238137691698FAA872 (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
Coral _ Reef-Mangrove _ Bay-Egypt- 2023
Event date
2023-10-19 , 2023-10-22
Verbatim event date
2023-10-19 , 2023-10-22
Scientific name authorship
Dana
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Order
Scleractinia
Family
Acroporidae
Genus
Acropora
Species
digitifera
Taxon rank
species
Type status
Other material
Taxonomic concept label
Acropora digitifera (Dana, 1846) sec. Koch, Ivkić, Jones, Scharnhorst, Stix, Auer, Schöchtner, Özer, Steinwender, Daurella & Zuschin, 2025