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Echinopora forskaliana

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae

Taxonomy
Astrea forskaliana was named by Milne-Edwards and Haime (1850). It is extant.

It was recombined as Orbicella forskaliana by Klunzinger (1879); it was recombined as Echinopora forskaliana by Wijsman-Best (1980).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data
E. maxima

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1850Astrea forskaliana Milne-Edwards and Haime
1879Orbicella forskaliana Klunzinger
1980Astrea forskaliana Milne-Edwards and Haime
1980Echinopora forskaliana Wijsman-Best

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
—Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderFaviinaVaughan and Wells 1943
superfamilyFaviicaeGregory 1900
familyMerulinidaeVerrill 1866
genusEchinoporaLamarck 1816
speciesforskaliana(Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Echinopora forskaliana Milne-Edwards and Haime 1850
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragonitesubo
Grouping: colonialsubo
Clonal: yessubo
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationarysubo
Attached: yessubo
Life habit: intermediate-level epifaunalo
Diet: photosymbioticsubo
Diet 2: suspension feedersubo
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: alternatingo
Asexual: yeso
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2008-02-21 04:32:59
Modified: 2008-02-21 06:32:59
Source: subo = suborder, o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2008, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Late/Upper Pliocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 3.60000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Indonesia (East Nusa Tenggara) Orbicella forskaliana (109651)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Saudi Arabia (Jazan) Echinopora forskaliana (234198)
Middle Pleistocene - Late/Upper Pleistocene0.774 - 0.0117Egypt (Red Sea) Echinopora forskaliana (234196)
Late/Upper Pleistocene (interglacial)0.129 - 0.0117Egypt (Sinai) Echinopora forskaliana (109187 109246 109437 109442 109448 109449 109451 109452)