Species Psammocora haimiana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851

Museums

Regional Maps

• Psammocora haimeana Milne Edwards, H. & Haime, J. 1851. Recherches sur les polypiers. Septième Mémoire. Monographie des Poritides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie Ser. 3 16: 21-70.

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHNP 535, Seychelles.
• Psammocora exesa Gardiner, J.S. 1905. Madreporaria, III Fungida, lV. Turbinolidae. pp. 933–957 in Gardiner, J.S. (ed.). Fauna and Geography of the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes, being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press Vol. II(Part IV) pp. 807–921, pls. LXVII-LXXXVII. [952].
• Psammocora folium Umbgrove, J.H. 1940. Madreporaria from the Bay of Batavia. Zoologische Mededelingen (Leiden) 22: 1-64 [52].

  Type data:

   Holotype RMNH Coel. 9360.
• Psammocora togianensis Umbgrove, 1940.

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) RMNH Coel. 10195, 10196, 10197, 10198, 10199, 10200.

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

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

Distribution References

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

General References

Veron, J.E.N. & Pichon, M. 1976. Scleractinia of eastern Australia Part I. Families Thamnasteriidae, Astrocoeniidae, Pocilloporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science, Monograph Series 1. 1-86

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