Species Psammocora profundacella Gardiner, 1898

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• Psammocora profundacella 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 [537] [nomen protectum].

  Type data:

   Holotype UMZC unregistered, Funafuti, Tuvalu.
• Meandroseris australiae Rousseau, L. 1854. Voyage au Pôle Sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée , exécuté ... pendant ... 1837-1840, sous le commandemant de M.J. Dumont d'Urville ... publié ... sous la direction supérieure de M. Jacquinot, etc. 5: Zoologie. Description des mollusques, coquilles et zoophytes. Paris : Publisher unknown 132 pp. [Pl. 28] [nomen oblitum; Article 23.9.2].

  Type data:

   Holotype MNHNP 521, Australia.
• Psammocora superficialis 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 [537].
• Psammocora samoensis 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.

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

Other Regions

Territory of Ashmore & Cartier Islands

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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