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Turbinaria mesenterina

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae

Taxonomy
Explanaria mesenterina was named by Lamarck (1816). It is extant.

It was recombined as Turbinaria mesenterina by Milne-Edwards and Haime (1860).

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1816Explanaria mesenterina Lamarck
1860Turbinaria mesenterina Milne-Edwards and Haime

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderDendrophylliinaVaughan and Wells 1943
familyDendrophylliidaeGray 1847
genusTurbinariaOken 1815
speciesmesenterina(Lamarck 1816)

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.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Grouping: colonialo
Clonal: yeso
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: intermediate-level epifaunalo
Diet: microcarnivoreo
Diet 2: photosymbiotico
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: alternatingo
Asexual: yeso
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2004-02-27 16:54:46
Modified: 2009-10-09 15:38:42
Source: o = order, c = class
Reference: Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Messinian to the top of the Holocene or 7.24600 to 0.00000 Ma

Collections (7 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Messinian7.246 - 5.333Tanzania Turbinaria mesenterina (202214)
Early/Lower Pliocene5.333 - 3.6Egypt Turbinaria mesenterina (96758)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Papua New Guinea Turbinaria mesenterina (42736)
Late/Upper Pliocene3.6 - 2.588Egypt Turbinaria mesenterina (96759)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Saudi Arabia Turbinaria mesenterina (80963 201414)
Holocene0.0117 - 0.0Japan (Chiba) Turbinaria mesenterina (97528)