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Heteropsammia cochlea

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Dendrophylliidae

Taxonomy
Madrepora cochlea was named by Spengler (1781). It is extant.

It was recombined as Heteropsammia cochlea by Milne-Edwards and Haime (1860).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1781Madrepora cochlea Spengler
1848Heteropsammia michelini Milne-Edwards and Haime
1860Heteropsammia cochlea Milne-Edwards and Haime
1872Heteropsammia ovalis Semper

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumCnidariaHatschek 1888
classAnthozoaEhrenberg 1834
—Hexacorallia()
orderScleractiniaBourne 1900
RankNameAuthor
suborderDendrophylliinaVaughan and Wells 1943
familyDendrophylliidaeGray 1847
genusHeteropsammiaMilne-Edwards and Haime 1848
speciescochlea(Spengler 1781)

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.

Heteropsammia cochlea Spengler 1781
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Invalid names: Heteropsammia michelini Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848 [synonym], Heteropsammia ovalis Semper 1872 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Grouping: colonialo
Clonal: yeso
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: facultatively mobileg
Attached: yeso
Life habit: low-level epifaunalg
Diet: microcarnivoreg
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: alternatingo
Asexual: yeso
Dispersal: watero
Dispersal 2: planktonico
Created: 2009-10-10 08:19:15
Modified: 2009-10-10 10:19:15
Source: g = genus, o = order, c = class
References: Hendy et al. 2009, Kiessling 2004

Age range: base of the Middle Miocene to the top of the Late/Upper Pleistocene or 15.97000 to 0.01170 Ma

Collections (11 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Middle Miocene15.97 - 11.608Indonesia Heteropsammia ovalis (71058)
Pliocene5.333 - 2.588Taiwan Heteropsammia cochlea (92628) Heteropsammia ovalis, Heteropsammia cochlea (92627)
Pliocene - Early/Lower Pleistocene5.333 - 0.781Taiwan Heteropsammia michelini (89259)
Pliocene - Pleistocene5.333 - 0.0117Philippines Heteropsammia michelini (92586)
Early/Lower Pleistocene2.588 - 0.781Indonesia Heteropsammia cochlea (42739)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Japan (Chiba) Heteropsammia ovalis (92649)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Taiwan Heteropsammia ovalis (123203 123204)
Pleistocene2.588 - 0.0117Japan (Kagoshima) Heteropsammia ovalis (92681)
Late/Upper Pleistocene0.129 - 0.0117Japan Heteropsammia ovalis (92589)