Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834
- Dataset
- GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. Abhandlungen Der Königlichen Akademie Der Wissenschaften, Berlin, 1: 225–380. https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=sourcedetails&id=35875
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Cnidaria
- class
- Anthozoa
- order
- Scleractinia
- family
- Merulinidae
- genus
- Platygyra
Name
- Synonyms
- Astroria Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
- Brachymeandrina Duncan, 1884
- Caeloria Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
- Ilerdogyra Reig Oriol, 1989
- Miria Gregorio, 1894
- Homonyms
- Platygyra Ehrenberg, 1834
- Platygyra Mörch, 1860
- Common names
- brain coral in English
- Hirnkorallen in German
- Neptunskorallen in German
- brain coral in English
- brain corals in English
- closed brain coral in English
- worm coral in English
- ノウサンゴ属 in Japanese
Bibliographic References
- Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1832
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