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Acropora palmata (Lamarck, 1816)
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Dataset
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GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
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Rank
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SPECIES
Classification
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kingdom
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Animalia
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phylum
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Cnidaria
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class
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Anthozoa
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order
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Scleractinia
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family
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Acroporidae
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genus
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Acropora
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species
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Acropora palmata
Name
- Synonyms
- Acropora alces (Dana, 1846)
- Acropora flabellum (Lamarck, 1816)
- Acropora muricata var. alces (Dana, 1846)
- Acropora muricata var. alcesperampla Verrill, 1901
- Acropora muricata var. cornuta (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860)
- Acropora muricata var. flabellum (Lamarck, 1816)
- Acropora muricata var. palmata Lamarck, 1816
- Acropora muricata var. perampla (Horn, 1861)
- Acropora palmata f. crustosa Kühlmann, 1975
- Acropora palmata f. erecta Kühlmann, 1975
- Acropora palmata f. palmata
- Acropora palmata f. retroflexa Kühlmann, 1975
- Astrhelia palmata (Lamarck, 1816)
- Heteropora flabellum (Lamarck, 1816)
- Heteropora palmata (Lamarck, 1816)
- Isopora muricata f. palmata (Lamarck, 1816)
- Isopora muricata palmata Lamarck, 1816
- Isopora palmata (Lamarck, 1816)
- Madrepora alces Dana, 1846
- Madrepora cornuta Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860
- Homonyms
- Acropora palmata (Lamarck, 1816)
- Common names
- Elchgeweihkoralle in German
- Elchhornkoralle in German
- Elkhorn coral in language.
- elkhorn coral in language.
- elkhorn coral in English
- elkhorn coral in language.
- elkhorn coral in English
- Elandgeweikoraal in Dutch
- Elkhorn Coral in English
- Elkhorn Coral in English
- Koral Kachu grandi in language.
- Coral Cacho de Alce in Spanish
- Elchgeweihkoralle in German
- Elchhornkoralle in German
- elkhorn coral in English
Bibliographic References
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Baker, A. C.; Romanski, A. M. (2007). Multiple symbiotic partnerships are common in scleractinian corals, but not in octocorals: comment on Goulet (2006). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 335, 237-242
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Britton, J.C. & B. Morton, 1989. Shore ecology of the Gulf of Mexico : i-viii, 1-387.
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Cairns SD, Hoeksema BW, van der Land J. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 459: 13-46.
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Cairns SD, Hoeksema BW, van der Land J. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms.
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Cairns SD, Jaap WC, Lang JC. (2009). Scleractinia (Cnidaria) of the Gulf of Mexico. <em>In: Felder DL. Camp DK (eds.) Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.</em> Pp. 333–347.
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Cairns, S. D. (1982). Stony corals (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa, Scleractinia) of Carrie Bow Cay, Belize. Smithsonian Institution Press. Washington., chapter 17, pp. 271-302
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Cairns, Stephen D., 1999: Species richness of recent Scleractinia. Atoll Research Bulletin, no. 59. 1-46.
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Cortès, J., Guzmán, H. (1985). Organismos de los arrecifes coralinos de Costa Rica III. Descripcion y distribucion geografica de corales escleractinios (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) de la Costa Caribe. <em>Brenesia.</em> 24: 63-123.
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Fautin, D. G.; Bucklin, A. (1988). Anthozoan dominated benthic environments. volume 3, pp. 231-236
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Grajales V.A., Aguilar C., Sánchez J. (2007). Phylogenetic reconstruction using secondary structures of Internal Transcribed Spacer 2 (ITS2, rDNA): finding the molecular and morphological gap in Caribbean gorgonian corals. <em>BMC Evolutionary Biology 7: 90.</em>
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Guzman, H.M., 1998. Diversity of stony, soft and black corals (Anthozoa: Scleractinia, Gorgonacea, Antipatharia; Hydrozoa: Milleporina) at Cayos Cochinos, Bay Islands, Honduras. Rev. Biol. Trop. 46 Suppl. 4: 75-80.
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Karlson, R. H. 1980. Alternative competitive strategies in a periodically disturbed habitat. Bulletin of Marine Science 30(4): 894-890.
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Kitahara MV, Stolarski J, Cairns SD, Benzoni F, Stake JL, Miller DJ. (2012). The first modern solitary Agariciidae (Anthozoa, Scleractinia) revealed by molecular and microstructural analysis. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 26 (3): 303-315.
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Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
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Laborel, J. (1970). Les peuplements de madréporaires des côtes tropicales du Brésil. Annales de l'Université d'Abidjan, 2, E, (3): 7-261
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Lasker, H. R. (1983). Vegetative reproduction in the octocoral Briareum asbestinum (Pallas). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, 72, 157-169
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Miller, A. C. (1981). Cnidarian prey of the snails Coralliophila abbreviata and C. caribaea (Gastropoda: Muricidae) in Discovery Bay, Jamaica. Bulletin of Marine Science, 31(4): 932-934
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Palincsar, E. E.; Jones, W. R.; Palincsar, J. S.; Glogowski, M. A.; Mastro, J. L. (1989). Bacterial aggregates within the epidermis of the sea anemone Aiptasia pallida. Biological Bulletin, 177, 130-140
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Reinicke, G. B.; Schuhmacher, H. (1996). Significance of different traits of soft-coral assemblages (Octocorallia, Alcyoniina) in benthic reef communities of the Red Sea. Göttinger Arbeiten zur Geologie Paläontologie, Sb2, 77-84