Species Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, 1758

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• Madrepora oculata Linnaeus, C. 1758. Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundem classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Holmiae : Laurentii Salvii Vol. 1 10, 824 pp. [798].

  Type data:

   Holotype (According to Zibrowius (1980) the types are lost), Tyrrhenian Sea and Sicily, Mediterranean Sea (depth unknown).

  Type locality references:

  Zibrowius, H. 1980. Les Scléractiniaires de la Méditeranee et de l'Atlantique nord-orientale. Mémoires de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco 11: 284 p. [36-40].

  Secondary source:

   Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417.
• Amphelia oculata Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1850. Recherches sur les polypiers. Cinquième Memoire. Monographie des Oculinides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie Ser. 3 13: 63-110 [85].
• Amphihelia venusta Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1850. Recherches sur les polypiers. Cinquième Memoire. Monographie des Oculinides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie Ser. 3 13: 63-110 [86].
• Amphihelia oculata Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1857. Histoire Naturelle des Coralliaires ou Polypes Proprement Dits. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. T. 2 633 pp. [119].
• Lophohelia candida Moseley, M.A. 1881. Part III. On the deep-sea Madreporaria. pp. 127–248 in Moseley, M.A. Report on certain Hydroid, Alcyonarian, and Madreporarian Corals procured during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, in the Years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 2: 1–248, XXXII pls. [179-180].
• Lophohelia tenuis Moseley, M.A. 1881. Part III. On the deep-sea Madreporaria. pp. 127–248 in Moseley, M.A. Report on certain Hydroid, Alcyonarian, and Madreporarian Corals procured during the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger, in the Years 1873-1876. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology 2: 1–248, XXXII pls. [180-181] (pl. 8, figs. 11-14).
• Cyathohelia formosa Alcock, A.W. 1898. An account of the deep-sea Madreporaria collected by the Royal Indian marine survey ship Investigator. Calcutta : Trustees of the Indian Museum 29 pp. [26-27] (pl. 3, figs. 2, 2A).
• Lophohelia investigatoris Alcock, A.W. 1898. An account of the deep-sea Madreporaria collected by the Royal Indian marine survey ship Investigator. Calcutta : Trustees of the Indian Museum 29 pp. [24-25].
• Amphihelia (Diplohelia) moresbyi Alcock, A.W. 1898. An account of the deep-sea Madreporaria collected by the Royal Indian marine survey ship Investigator. Calcutta : Trustees of the Indian Museum 29 pp. [25-26].
• Madrepora galapagensis Vaughan, T.W. 1906. Report on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific VI Madreporaria. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 50: 59-72 [63-64] (pl. 1, fig. 2, pl. 2, figs. 1, 1b).
• Madracis kauaiensis Vaughan, T.W. 1907. Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 59: 1-427 [81-83] (pl. 8, figs. 1-2).
• Madrepora alcocki Faustino, L.A. 1927. Recent Madreporaria of the Philippine Islands. Monographs of the Bureau of Science. Manila 22: 1–310 [106].
• Madrepora vitiae Squires, D.F. & Keyes, I.W. 1967. The marine fauna of New Zealand: scleractinian corals. New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir 43: 46 pp., 6 pls [22] (pl.1, figs. 4-8).

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Zibrowius, H. 1980. Les Scléractiniaires de la Méditeranee et de l'Atlantique nord-orientale. Mémoires de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco 11: 284 p. [36-40] (pl. 13, figs. A-P)
• Cairns, S.D. 1999. Cnidaria Anthozoa: deep-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 180: 31–167 [61] (figs. 2e-f)
• Cairns, S.D. 2004. The Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Coelenterata: Anthozoa) of Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 56(3): 259–329 [274-275]
• Cairns, S.D. 2009. Cold-water corals Online Appendix. www.lophelia.org/pdf/Cold-water_Corals_Online_Appendix_000.pdf [4]

 

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Madrepora sp. —
  Veron, J.E.N. 1986. Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. North Ryde, Sydney : Angus & Robertson xii, 644 pp. many unnumbered figures. [599, black & white fig. ("Australia")]
  Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Madrepora oculata is considered to be cosmopolitan. Depth range worldwide: 55-1950 m

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

Extra Ecological Information

Colonial, azooxanthellate, fixed.

 

General References

Cairns, S.D. 1998. Azooxanthellate Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) of Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 18: 361–417

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
19-Oct-2024	HEXACORALLIA Haeckel, 1896	19-Oct-2024	MOVED
05-Aug-2022	SCLERACTINIA Bourne, 1900	30-May-2018	MODIFIED	Dr Zoe Richards
05-Aug-2022	SCLERACTINIA Bourne, 1900	28-Mar-2018	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022	FAVIINA Vaughan & Wells, 1943	13-Aug-2013	MOVED	Dr Carden Wallace
05-Aug-2022		28-Jul-2010	MODIFIED
		13-Jul-2010	MODIFIED