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Colangia immersa
Authors/Creators
- 1. Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, INVEMAR, Cerro de Punta Betín, AA 1016 Santa Marta, Colombia. E-mail: j _ reyes _ forero @ hotmail. com, nsantodomingo @ gmail. com National Museum of Natural History, Naturalis, PO Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands National Museum of Natural History, Washington, D. C. 20013, U. S. A. E-mail: cairnss @ si. edu
Description
Colangia immersa (Pourtalès, 1871)
Figs. 4D–E
Colangia immersa Pourtalès, 1871: 31–32.– Goreau & Wells, 1967: 448 (listed).— Porter, 1972: 112 (listed).— Wells & Lang, 1973: 57 (listed).— Cairns, 1979: 207 (listed); 1982: 290, fig. 128f. — Castañares & Soto, 1982: Table 1 (listed).— Hubbard & Wells, 1986: 129–130, figs. 13–16.—Humann, 1993: 168–171, 3 colour figs.— Fenner, 1993b: 12, 14 (listed).
Rhizosmilia maculata Cortés, 1992: 243, fig. 1; 1996: 331. [Not Bathycyathus maculatus Pourtalès, 1874].
Remarks: The unique Colombian specimen is a single dead corallite in worn condition, which exhibits many sipunculid erosion holes. The specimen was collected at the calcareous algae seabed off Manaure (La Guajira Peninsula).
Distribution: Caribbean, Bahamas and Bermuda (Cairns 2000); from 0.5 to 347 m. In Colombia, it is only known from the northern coast off Manaure (La Guajira Peninsula) at 73 m depth.
Material: INV CNI683, 1 specimen, E88.
Notes
Published as part of Reyes, Javier, Santodomingo, Nadiezhda & Cairns, Stephen, 2009, Caryophylliidae (Scleractinia) from the Colombian Caribbean, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 2262 (1) on pages 22-24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2262.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5306371
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Biodiversity
- Collection code
- CNI
- Material sample ID
- CNI683
- Scientific name authorship
- Pourtales
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Cnidaria
- Order
- Scleractinia
- Family
- Caryophylliidae
- Genus
- Colangia
- Species
- immersa
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Colangia immersa (Pourtales, 1871) sec. Reyes, Santodomingo & Cairns, 2009
References
- Pourtales, L. F. (1871) Deep-Sea Corals. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 4, 1 - 93. (also cited as Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 2, 93 pp.).
- Goreau, T. F. & Wells, J. W. (1967) The shallow-water Scleractinia of Jamaica: Revised list of species and their vertical distributional range. Bulletin of Marine Science, 17 (2), 442 - 453.
- Porter, J. W. (1972). Ecology and species diversity of corals reefs on opposite sides of the Isthmus of Panama. In: M. L. Jones (Ed.) The Panamic biota: some observations prior to a sea-level canal. Bulletin of the Biological Society of Washington, 2, 89 - 116.
- Wells, J. W. & Lang, J. C. (1973) Systematic list of Jamaican shallow-water Scleractinia. Bulletin of Marine Science, 23 (1), 55 - 58.
- Cairns, S. D. (1979) The deep-water Scleractinia of the Caribbean Sea and adjacent waters. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands, 57, 341 pp.
- Castanares, L. G. & Soto, L. A. (1982) Estudios sobre los corales ahermatipicos de la costa noreste de Yucatan Mexico. Parte 1: Sinopsis taxonomica de 38 especies (Cindaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Anales Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnologia de la Universidad Autonoma de Mexico, 9 (1), 295 - 334.
- Hubbard, R. H. & Wells, J. W. (1986) Ahermatypic shallow-water scleractinian corals of Trinidad. Studies on the Fauna of Curacao and other Caribbean Islands, 211 (68), 121 - 144.
- Fenner, D. P. (1993 b) Species distinctions among several Caribbean stony corals. Bulletin of Marine Sciences, 53 (3), 1099 - 1116.
- Cortes, J. (1992) Nuevos registros de corales (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) para el Caribe de Costa Rica: Rhizosmilia maculata y Meandrina meandrites. Revista de Biologia Tropical, 40 (2), 243 - 244.
- Pourtales, L. F. (1874) Zoological results of the Hassler Expedition. Illustrated Catalogue of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College, 8, 33 - 50. (also cited as Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard, 4, 33 - 50).
- 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.