Atlantia caboverdiana

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Scleractinia
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Phylum: Cnidaria Classis: Anthozoa Subclassis: Hexacorallia Ordo: Scleractinia

Atlantia caboverdiana (Ocaña & Brito in Ocaña et al., 2015) López & Capel in Capel et al., 2020

Type locality: Santiago Island, Cape Verde, 10 m depth.

original combination: Tubastrea caboverdiana Ocaña & Brito in Ocaña et al., 2015

Holotype: MMC-26 [MMC: Museo del Mar de Ceuta]

Paratypes: MMC-27; MMC-28; MMC-29; MMC-30; MMC-31; MMC-32; MMC-33; MMC-34.

Distribution: known only from the Cape Verde archipelago but possibly occurs also in the Gulf of Guinea.

Tubastraea caboverdiana Ocaña & Brito in Ocaña et al., 2015
Tubastrea caboverdiana Ocaña & Brito in Ocaña et al., 2015 (misspelling of genus name)

Capel, K.C.C., López, C., Moltó-Martín, I., Zilberberg, C., Creed, J.C., Knapp, I.S.S., Hernández, M., Forsman, Z.H., Toonen, R.J., Kitahara, M.V. 2020. Atlantia, a new genus of Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia) from the eastern Atlantic. PeerJ. 8: e8633. DOI: 10.7717/peerj.8633 Reference page. [See p. 6-10, figs. 1-3; recombination reference]
Ocaña, O., den Hartog, J.C., Brito, A., Moro, L., Herrera, R., Martin, J., Ramos, A.,Ballesteros, E., Bacallado, J.J. 2015. A survey on Anthozoa and its habitats along the northwest African coast and some islands: new records, descriptions of new taxa and biogeographical, ecological and taxonomical comments. Part I. Revista de la Academia Canaria de Ciencias. 27: 9-66. BHL Reference page. [See p48-52, 5 figs.; as Tubastrea caboverdiana, original description]

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2020). World List of Scleractinia. Atlantia caboverdiana (Ocaña & Brito, 2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1424900 on 2020-11-09

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