Taxon name selected
Psammocora nierstraszi van der Horst, 1921
Status
Valid species
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Authority reference(s):
van der Horst, C.J. (1921). The Madreporaria of the Siboga Expedition. II Madreporaria Fungida
in Siboga-Expeditie 16b (Leiden: Boekhandel en Drukkerij, EJ Brill), Monographe XVIb:53-98. 6 pls.
(For species details see p. 34 in offprint; p. 86 in Expedition report and
Plate II, Figs. 3-4)
Taxonomic note: Benzoni, Arrigoni, Stefani et al. (2012) synonymised P. vaughani and P. verrilli with this species. This synonymy is unresolved
Taxonomic reference(s):
Benzoni, F., Stefani, F., Pichon, M. and Galli, P. (2010). The name game: morpho-molecular species boundaries in the genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society 160(3):421-456. doi: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00622.x.
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