Acropora cervicornis

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: zooxanthellate

Last scrutiny: 2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Acropora

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 8 species and subspecies in this genus:

A. cervicornis (Staghorn Coral) · A. florida (Branch Coral) · A. formosa (Staghorn Coral) · A. humilis (Finger Coral) · A. hyacinthus (Brush Coral) · A. palmata (Elkhorn Coral) · A. paniculata (Table Coral) · A. prolifera (Fused Staghorn Coral)

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• Checklist of CITES Species: a reference to the appendices to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CITES url p. 106, p. 220, p. 54, p. 233.
• Checklist of fish and invertebrates listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 44.
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Notes

Contributors

• American Fisheries Society. Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Cnidaria and Ctenophora Second Edition. Special Publication 28. ISBN 1-888569-39-5.
• Aronson, R., Bruckner, A., Moore, J., Precht, B. & E. Weil 2008. Acropora cervicornis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 29January2012.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 31, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 4 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• S.D.Cairns, B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land (from URMO).
• URMO: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. Release date: November 18, 2008

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:

• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment -Benthic (OBIS Australia)
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• National Chemical Laboratory: IndOBIS, Indian Ocean Node of OBIS
• National Museum of Natural History: NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2565900
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: URM-Cn-4726
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 14582939
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 52862
• IUCN ID: 188634
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: IDANT01020
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 153664

Footnotes

1. Aronson, R., Bruckner, A., Moore, J., Precht, B. & E. Weil 2008. Acropora cervicornis. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 29 January 2012. [back]