info on Madrepora-Acropora Species
Gianna Innocenti
ganesh at www.specola.unifi.it
Mon Feb 7 07:32:51 EST 2000
Dear Colleagues,
I am actually working on a very old Anthozoa collection in the Zoological
Museum 'La Specola', Firenze (Italy). I have many problems in locate the
actual name of some Madrepora species - names that I found written on the
old labels on specimens. I am sure that they are now Acropora, but using
the Zoological Record and the references available in our Library, I
couldn't locate them. Does anybody know the validity of such species and
any good and recent references that can help me? Any help will be more than
welcome!
Here there are:
specific name collection locality
Madrepora appressa Dana Fiji Is.
Madrepora arabica M.Edwards & Haime Red Sea
Madrepora canaliculata Klunzinger Red Sea
Madrepora candelabrum Sh. ??
Madrepora cycloptera Dana Indopacific region
Madrepora echidnoea Dana Fiji Is.
Madrepora effusa Dana Indian Oc., Samoa Is.
Madrepora forskiali Ehreberg Red Sea
Madrepora monasteriata M.Edwards Red Sea
Madrepora obtusata Klunzinger Red Sea
Madrepora pharaonis M.Edwards Red Sea
Madrepora plantaginea Lamarck Indian Oc.
Madrepora pocillifera Lamarck Samoa Is.
Madrepora prostata Dana Fiji Is.
Madrepora pustolosa M.Edwards Red Sea
Madrepora scherzeriana (Hoek) Brugg. Red Sea
Madrepora secunda Dana ??
Madrepora securis Dana Pacific Oc. ?
Madrepora surculosa Dana Indian Oc.
Madrepora verrucosa M.Edwards Red Sea
Thank you,
Deborah Benvenuti
Collaborator to the Cnidaria Collection
Museo di Storia Naturale dellUniversità degli Studi di Firenze
Sezione di Zoologia "La Specola"
Via Romana, 17
50125 Firenze
fax: 0039 055 225325
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