Colpophyllia natans

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Comment: zooxanthellate

Last scrutiny: 2007

Similar Species

Members of the genus Colpophyllia

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C. natans (Boulder Brain Coral)

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Further Reading

• Atlantic reef corals, a handbook of the common reef and shallow-water corals of Bermuda, Florida, the West Indies, and Brazil; photos. by Fredrick M. Bayer. [Coral Gables]University of Miami Press1948. url p. 86.
• Bulletins of American paleontology. 1999 Ithaca, N.Y., Paleontological Research Institution [etc.] url expl. of plate 21 , p. 10, p. 154, p. 156, p. 24, p. 33, p. 368, p. 369, p. 370, p. 371, p. 4, p. 49, p. 50, p. 78, p. 79.
• Checklist of fish and invertebrates listed in the CITES appendices and in EC Regulation 338/97 JNCC url p. 107.
• Coral Reefs of the World. url p. 112, p. 116, p. 118, p. 125, p. 181, p. 189, p. 193, p. 199, p. 214, p. 221, p. 231, p. 281, p. 283, p. 336, p. 365, p. 87.
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. url p. 194, p. 196.
• Final environmental impact statement prepared on the proposed Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary. [Washington, D.C.]: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Coastal Zone Management, [1980] url p. 51, p. 54.
• Key Largo Coral Reef Marine Sanctuary management plan. [Washington]: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Office of Coastal Zone Management, 1979. url p. 7.
• Oceanus. Woods Hole, Mass., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution url p. 37.
• Tektite 2: scientists in the sea / Ed. by J.W. Miller, J.G. VanDerwalker, and R.A. Waller. Washington: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1971 [i.e. 1972] url p. 244.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, url p. 233, p. 239, p. 255, p. 256.
• The ecology of deep and shallow coral reefs: results of a workshop on coral reef ecology held by the American Society of Zoologists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, December 1983 / edited by Marjorie L. Reaka. Rockville, MD.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, Office of Undersea Research, [1983] url p. 21.
• World Checklist of Fish and Invertebrates Listed in the CITES Appendices Joint Nature Conservation Committee url p. 103.

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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. Colpophyllia natans. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 31January2012.
• 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 and 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 15, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 05, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 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 and J. van der Land (from UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms).
• URMO: UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. Release date: November 18, 2008

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 05, 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 Museum of Natural History: NMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collections

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 2566324
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: URM-Cn-5508
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13837572
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 53289
• IUCN ID: 201504
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: IDANT08010
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 153668

Footnotes

1. Mean = -1,106.590 meters (-3,630.545 feet), Standard Deviation = 1,575.050 based on 408 observations. Ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
2. Aronson, R., Bruckner, A., Moore, J., Precht, B. & E. Weil 2008. Colpophyllia natans. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 31 January 2012. [back]