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Lithophyllon
''Lithophyllon'' is a genus of stony corals in the family Fungiidae The Fungiidae () are a family of Cnidaria, commonly known as mushroom corals or plate corals. The family contains thirteen extant genera. They range from solitary corals to colonial species. Some genera such as '' Cycloseris'' and '' Fungia'' a .... Species The World Register of Marine Species currently lists the following species: *'' Lithophyllon concinna'' (Verrill, 1864) *'' Lithophyllon ranjithi'' Ditlev, 2003 *'' Lithophyllon repanda'' (Dana, 1846) *'' Lithophyllon scabra'' (Döderlein, 1901) *'' Lithophyllon spinifer'' (Claereboudt & Hoeksema, 1987) *'' Lithophyllon undulatum'' Rehberg, 1892 References Fungiidae Scleractinia genera {{scleractinia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithophyllon Ranjithi
''Lithophyllon'' is a genus of stony corals in the family Fungiidae. Species The World Register of Marine Species currently lists the following species: *''Lithophyllon concinna ''Lithophyllon'' is a genus of stony corals in the family Fungiidae The Fungiidae () are a family of Cnidaria, commonly known as mushroom corals or plate corals. The family contains thirteen extant genera. They range from solitary corals to ...'' (Verrill, 1864) *'' Lithophyllon ranjithi'' Ditlev, 2003 *'' Lithophyllon repanda'' (Dana, 1846) *'' Lithophyllon scabra'' (Döderlein, 1901) *'' Lithophyllon spinifer'' (Claereboudt & Hoeksema, 1987) *'' Lithophyllon undulatum'' Rehberg, 1892 References Fungiidae Scleractinia genera {{scleractinia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithophyllon Scabra
''Lithophyllon'' is a genus of stony corals in the family Fungiidae. Species The World Register of Marine Species currently lists the following species: *''Lithophyllon concinna'' (Verrill, 1864) *''Lithophyllon ranjithi ''Lithophyllon'' is a genus of stony corals in the family Fungiidae. Species The World Register of Marine Species currently lists the following species: *''Lithophyllon concinna ''Lithophyllon'' is a genus of stony corals in the family Fung ...'' Ditlev, 2003 *'' Lithophyllon repanda'' (Dana, 1846) *'' Lithophyllon scabra'' (Döderlein, 1901) *'' Lithophyllon spinifer'' (Claereboudt & Hoeksema, 1987) *'' Lithophyllon undulatum'' Rehberg, 1892 References Fungiidae Scleractinia genera {{scleractinia-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lithophyllon Repanda
''Lithophyllon repanda'' is a species of mushroom or disc coral in the family Fungiidae. This species is able to move to another location on occasion. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) rated it as a least-concern species, and it was originally described by James Dwight Dana in 1846. It occurs at depths of . Description ''L. repanda'' has thick and circular polyps with diameters of up to , which are either arched or flat. Its septa are roughly equal and the septal teeth are visible. Its tentacles extend during the day and are pale in colour, but the species is without tentacular lobes. It has granular costal spines and the species is brown in colour. It reaches diameters of up to . Distribution It is found in the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the southwestern and northern Indian Ocean, eastern Africa, northern, eastern, and western Australia, the East China Sea, Japan, and the western and central Pacific Ocean. It is a common species and no population figures ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fungiidae
The Fungiidae () are a family of Cnidaria, commonly known as mushroom corals or plate corals. The family contains thirteen extant genera. They range from solitary corals to colonial species. Some genera such as '' Cycloseris'' and '' Fungia'' are solitary organisms, '' Polyphyllia'' consists of a single organism with multiple mouths, and '' Ctenactis'' and '' Herpolitha'' might be considered as solitary organisms with multiple mouths or a colony of individuals, each with its separate mouth. Characteristics Species are generally solitary marine animals capable of benthic locomotion. These corals often appear to be bleached or dead. In most genera, a single polyp emerges from the center of the skeleton to feed at night. Most species remain fully detached from the substrate in adulthood. Some are immobile as well as colonial. Ecology Some species of mushroom coral such as '' Fungia repanda'' and '' Ctenactis echinata'' are able to change sex. This is posited to take place in r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology (biology), morphology, behaviour, or ecological niche. In addition, palaeontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined. The most recent rigorous estimate for the total number of species of eukaryotes is between 8 and 8.7 million. About 14% of these had been described by 2011. All species (except viruses) are given a binomial nomenclature, two-part name, a "binomen". The first part of a binomen is the name of a genus to which the species belongs. The second part is called the specific name (zoology), specific name or the specific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In binomial nomenclature, the genus name forms the first part of the binomial species name for each species within the genus. :E.g. ''Panthera leo'' (lion) and ''Panthera onca'' (jaguar) are two species within the genus ''Panthera''. ''Panthera'' is a genus within the family Felidae. The composition of a genus is determined by taxonomy (biology), taxonomists. The standards for genus classification are not strictly codified, so different authorities often produce different classifications for genera. There are some general practices used, however, including the idea that a newly defined genus should fulfill these three criteria to be descriptively useful: # monophyly – all descendants of an ancestral taxon are grouped together (i.e. Phylogeneti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scleractinia
Scleractinia, also called stony corals or hard corals, are marine animals in the phylum Cnidaria that build themselves a hard skeleton. The individual animals are known as polyps and have a cylindrical body crowned by an oral disc in which a mouth is fringed with tentacles. Although some species are solitary, most are colonial. The founding polyp settles and starts to secrete calcium carbonate to protect its soft body. Solitary corals can be as much as across but in colonial species the polyps are usually only a few millimetres in diameter. These polyps reproduce asexually by budding, but remain attached to each other, forming a multi-polyp colony of clones with a common skeleton, which may be up to several metres in diameter or height according to species. The shape and appearance of each coral colony depends not only on the species, but also on its location, depth, the amount of water movement and other factors. Many shallow-water corals contain symbiont unicellular organis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family (biology)
Family (, : ) is one of the eight major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy. It is classified between order and genus. A family may be divided into subfamilies, which are intermediate ranks between the ranks of family and genus. The official family names are Latin in origin; however, popular names are often used: for example, walnut trees and hickory trees belong to the family Juglandaceae, but that family is commonly referred to as the "walnut family". The delineation of what constitutes a family—or whether a described family should be acknowledged—is established and decided upon by active taxonomists. There are not strict regulations for outlining or acknowledging a family, yet in the realm of plants, these classifications often rely on both the vegetative and reproductive characteristics of plant species. Taxonomists frequently hold varying perspectives on these descriptions, leading to a lack of widespread consensus within the scientific community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
