MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Lepidopora Pourtalès, 1871

URMO taxon details

Lepidopora Pourtal�s, 1871

AphiaID

117243 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:117243)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Stylasteridae Gray, 1847

Original name

Lepidopora Pourtal�s, 1871

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Species Lepidopora acrolophos Cairns, 1983
Species Lepidopora biserialis Cairns, 1986
Species Lepidopora carinata (Pourtal�s, 1867)
Species Lepidopora clavigera Cairns, 1986
Species Lepidopora concatenata Cairns, 1991
Species Lepidopora cryptocymas Cairns, 1985
Species Lepidopora decipiens (Boschma, 1964)
Species Lepidopora dendrostylus Cairns, 1991
Species Lepidopora diffusa (Boschma, 1963)
Species Lepidopora eburnea (Calvet, 1903)
Species Lepidopora glabra (Pourtal�s, 1867)
Species Lepidopora granulosa (Cairns, 1983)
Species Lepidopora polystichopora Cairns, 1985
Species Lepidopora sarmentosa (Boschma, 1968)
Species Lepidopora symmetrica Cairns, 1991
Species Lepidopora microstylus Cairns, 1991 accepted as Leptohelia microstylus (Cairns, 1991)

Environment

marine, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Pourtal�s L.F. de. (1871). Deep-sea corals. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zo�logy at Harvard College. 2 (4): 1-93, pls. 1-8., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13636
page(s): 40 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P. (2024). World Hydrozoa Database. Lepidopora Pourtal?s, 1871. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117243 on 2025-04-16

Thematic species database citation

Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Lepidopora Pourtal�s, 1871. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=117243 on 2025-04-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2006-09-13 06:47:38Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-11-21 16:41:40Z

checked

Cairns, Stephen

2019-02-14 07:24:18Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

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original description Pourtal�s L.F. de. (1871). Deep-sea corals. Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zo�logy at Harvard College. 2 (4): 1-93, pls. 1-8., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13636
page(s): 40 [details]

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record van der Land, J.; Vervoort, W.; Cairns, S.D.; Schuchert, P. (2001). Hydrozoa, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 112-120 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D. (1983). A generic revision of the Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 1. Description of the genera. Bulletin of Marine Science. 33(2): 427-508. [details] Available for editors

redescription Cairns, S.D. (1983). Antarctic and subantarctic Stylasterina (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). In: Biology of the Antarctic Seas, XIII. Antarctic Research Series. 38 (2): 61-164. [details] Available for editors

redescription Cairns, S.D. (1985). Three new species of Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. 98(3): 728-739. [details]

redescription Cairns, S.D. (1986). A revision of the Northwest Atlantic Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology. 418: 1-131., available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/smithsoniancontributions/Zoology/pdf_hi/SCTZ-0418.pdf [details] Available for editors

redescription Cairns, S.D. (1991). The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydroida). New Zealand Oceanographic Institute Memoir. 98: 1-179, pls. 1-77. [details] Available for editors

redescription Zibrowius, H. & S.D. Cairns. (1992). Revision of the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa). M�moires du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, s�rie A, Zoolologie. 153: 1-136. [details] Available for editors

redescription Cairns, S.D. (2015). Stylasteridae (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa: Anthoathecata) of the New Caledonian Region. Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 28. M�moires du Mus�um national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 207. Publications Scientifiques du Mus�um: Paris. 361 + 1 cd-rom pp., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/27379
page(s): 21; note: key to New Caledonian species [details] Available for editors

identification resource Cairns, S.D. (1992). A generic revision of the Stylasteridae (Coelenterata: Hydrozoa). Part 3. Keys to the genera. Bulletin of Marine Science. 49(1-2): 538-545. [1991]. published 27 Jan 1992. [details] Available for editors

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