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Platygyra Carnosus
''Platygyra'' is a genus (biology), genus of Scleractinia, stony corals in the family (biology), family Merulinidae. Species The following species are currently recognized: *''Platygyra acuta'' Veron, 2002 *''Platygyra carnosus'' Veron, 2002 *''Platygyra contorta'' Veron, 1990 *''Platygyra crosslandi'' (Matthai, 1928) *''Platygyra daedalea'' (Ellis & Solander, 1786) *''Platygyra lamellina'' (Ehrenberg, 1834) *''Platygyra pini'' Chevalier, 1975 *''Platygyra ryukyuensis'' Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935 *''Platygyra sinensis'' (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) *''Platygyra verweyi'' Wijsman-Best, 1976 *''Platygyra yaeyamaensis'' (Eguchi & Shirai, 1977) References External links * * Merulinidae Scleractinia genera Taxa named by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg {{scleractinia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg
Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (19 April 1795 – 27 June 1876) was a German Natural history, naturalist, zoologist, comparative anatomist, geologist, and microscopy, microscopist. Ehrenberg was an Evangelicalism, evangelist and was considered to be of the most famous and productive scientists of his time. Early collections The son of a judge, Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg was born in Delitzsch, near Leipzig. He first studied theology at the University of Leipzig, then medicine and natural sciences in Humboldt University of Berlin, Berlin and became a friend of the famous List of explorers, explorer Alexander von Humboldt. In 1818, he completed his doctoral dissertation on fungi, ''Sylvae mycologicae Berolinenses.'' In 1820–1825, on a scientific expedition to the Middle East with his friend Wilhelm Hemprich, he collected thousands of specimens of plants and animals. He investigated parts of Egypt, the Libyan Desert, the Nile, Nile valley and the northern coasts of the Red Sea, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |