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Published January 23, 2025 | Version v1
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Dipsastraea laxa

Creators

  • 1. Department of Functional and Evolutionary Ecology, University of Vienna, Djerassiplatz 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria
  • 2. Department of Paleoentology, University of Vienna, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, 1090 Vienna, Austria
  • 3. Department of Earth Sciences, University College London, Gower Street, London, WC 1 E 6 BT, United Kingdom
  • 4. Institute of Integrative Nature Conservation Research (INF), University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Gregor-Mendel-Straße 33, 1180 Vienna, Austria
  • 5. Department of Biology, University of York, Wentworth Way, York, YO 10 5 DD, United Kingdom

Description

Dipsastraea laxa (Klunzinger, 1879)

Materials

Type status: Other material. Occurrence: occurrenceRemarks: Observed and photographed on a current-exposed deeper reef slope; occurrenceStatus: present; occurrenceID: 2963DAD9-1AD2-518F-A8C1-6F11F0FB13A3; Taxon: scientificNameID: urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:758235; scientificName: Dipsastraea laxa; 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; minimumDepthInMeters: 8.5; maximumDepthInMeters: 8.8; 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 deeper reef slope; Record Level: institutionCode: UNIVIE; collectionCode: Coral _ Reef-Mangrove _ Bay-Egypt- 2023; basisOfRecord: HumanObservation

Conservation status

Near Threatened

Notes

Fig. 39.

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/E651141F31E659B9A93627792746460C

Related works

Cites
Figure: 10.3897/BDJ.13.e134282.figure39 (DOI)
Figure: https://binary.pensoft.net/fig/1096756 (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/E651141F31E659B9A93627792746460C (URL)

Biodiversity

Collection code
Coral _ Reef-Mangrove _ Bay-Egypt- 2023
Event date
2023-10-22
Verbatim event date
2023-10-22
Scientific name authorship
Klunzinger
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Order
Scleractinia
Family
Merulinidae
Genus
Dipsastraea
Species
laxa
Taxon rank
species
Type status
Other material
Taxonomic concept label
Dipsastraea laxa (Klunzinger, 1879) sec. Koch, Ivkić, Jones, Scharnhorst, Stix, Auer, Schöchtner, Özer, Steinwender, Daurella & Zuschin, 2025