Species Coscinaraea columna (Dana, 1846)

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• Psammocora columna Dana, J.D. 1846. Zoophytes. United States exploring expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. New York : Greenwood Press Vol. 7 pp. i-vi + 740.

  Secondary source:

   Veron J.E.N. & Pichon, M. 1980. Scleractinia of Eastern Australia. Part III. Families Agaraciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectiniidae, Caryophylliidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Monograph Series 4: 1-459 (Veron & Pichon , 1979 :Source Reference).
• Psammocora fossata Dana, J.D. 1846. Zoophytes. United States exploring expedition during the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842, under the command of Charles Wilkes, U.S.N. New York : Greenwood Press Vol. 7 pp. i-vi + 740.

  Secondary source:

   Veron J.E.N. & Pichon, M. 1980. Scleractinia of Eastern Australia. Part III. Families Agaraciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectiniidae, Caryophylliidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Monograph Series 4: 1-459 (Veron & Pichon , 1979 :Source Reference).
• Psammocora savigniensis Gardiner, J.S. 1898. On the fungid corals collected by the author in the south Pacific. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898(3): 525–539.

  Secondary source:

   Veron J.E.N. & Pichon, M. 1980. Scleractinia of Eastern Australia. Part III. Families Agaraciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectiniidae, Caryophylliidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Monograph Series 4: 1-459 (Veron & Pichon , 1979 :Source Reference).
• Coscinaraea fossata Hoffmeister, J.E. 1925. Some corals from American Samoa and the Fiji Islands. Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 22: 1–90.

  Secondary source:

   Veron J.E.N. & Pichon, M. 1980. Scleractinia of Eastern Australia. Part III. Families Agaraciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectiniidae, Caryophylliidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Monograph Series 4: 1-459 (Veron & Pichon , 1979 :Source Reference).
• Coscinaraea kusimotoensis Yabe, H., Sugiyama, T. & Eguchi, M. 1936. Recent reef building corals from Japan and the south sea islands under the Japanese mandate. Science Reports of the Tôhoku University, 2nd series (Geology) 1: 1-66.

  Secondary source:

   Veron J.E.N. & Pichon, M. 1980. Scleractinia of Eastern Australia. Part III. Families Agaraciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectiniidae, Caryophylliidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Monograph Series 4: 1-459 (Veron & Pichon , 1979 :Source Reference).
• Coscinaraea hahazimaensis Yabe, H., Sugiyama, T. & Eguchi, M. 1936. Recent reef building corals from Japan and the south sea islands under the Japanese mandate. Science Reports of the Tôhoku University, 2nd series (Geology) 1: 1-66.

  Secondary source:

   Veron J.E.N. & Pichon, M. 1980. Scleractinia of Eastern Australia. Part III. Families Agaraciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectiniidae, Caryophylliidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Monograph Series 4: 1-459 (Veron & Pichon , 1979 :Source Reference).

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Benzoni, F., Stefani, F., Pichon, M. & Galli, P. 2010. The name game: morpho‐molecular species boundaries in the genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 421–456
• Benzoni, F., Arrigoni, R., Stefani, F. & Stolarski, J. 2012. Systematics of the coral genus Craterastrea (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia) and description of a new family through combined morphological and molecular analyses. Systematics and Biodiversity 10: 417–433

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Distribution References

General References

Veron J.E.N. & Pichon, M. 1980. Scleractinia of Eastern Australia. Part III. Families Agaraciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectiniidae, Caryophylliidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Monograph Series 4: 1-459 (Veron & Pichon , 1979 :Source Reference)

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