Codes for Australian Aquatic Biota (CAAB) Taxon Report
- CAAB Code
- 11 307908 Show as JSON
- Scientific Name & Authority
- Homophyllia spp.
- Rank
- Genus
- CAAB category
- 11 - Cnidaria Jellyfish, sea anemones, corals and allies
- Family
- 11 307 Lobophylliidae (hard corals) - show full list
- Common Name
- [a stony coral]
- Organism Type
- a stony coral
- Synonyms
- Scolymia spp.
- Taxon lists
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Current Australian list:
Commercial species list:
Standard Fish Names List:
- Habitat
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Marine unspecified
- Parent Codes
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11 307000
Lobophylliidae
- Child Codes
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11 307030
Homophyllia australis
11 307001 Homophyllia bowerbanki
- Taxon Notes
- Previously included in Scolymia, which is now regarded as restricted to the Atlantic. This code is provided for use when identification of a specimen to this level is sufficient, or when no further detail is available.
- Identifiers
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Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) urn:lsid:biodiversity.org.au:afd.taxon:b88e8e71-dbbc-4d41-90bf-a1b3c31ab76c
Name status: accepted Checked on: 2019-11-21
View at Atlas of Living Australia
- Scientific Name verified against
- Arrigoni, R., Benzoni, F., Huang, D., Fukami, H., Chen, C.A., Berumen, M.L., Heegenboom, M., Thomson, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Budd, A.F., Zayasu, Y., Terraneo, T.I., Kitano, Y.F., Baird, A.H., 2016. When forms meet genes: revision of the scleractinian genera Micromussa and Homophyllia (Lobophylliidae) witha description of two new species and one new genus., Contibutions to Zoology, Vol. 85(4): 387-422.