Pleurocora haueri : Milne Edwards & Haime 1848

• Main Author: Baron-Szabo, Rosemarie C.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Cnidaria; Anthozoa; Scleractinia; Faviidae; Pleurocora; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5241522; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5241522

Pleurocora haueri Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 Text-Fig. 24 v*1848d Pleurocora Haueri: Milne Edwards & Haime, p. 312 (topotypes studied). v1854 Pleurocora Haueri M. Edw. et H.: Reuss, p. 112, pl. 6, figs 26–27 (topotypes studied). 1857 Pleurocora Haueri: Milne Edwards, vol. 2, p. 603. v1903 a Pleurocora Haueri M. Edwards et J. Haime: Felix, p. 267 (topotypes studied). 1909 Oculina Nordenskjöldi nov. sp.:Felix, p. 11, pl. 1, figs 12–13. 1914 Pleurocora Haueri E. H. 1849: Felix, pars 7, p. 172. 1914 Oculina Nordenskjöldi Felix 1909: Felix, pars 7, p. 232. 1972 O. nordenskjoldi Felix, 1909: Floris, p. 37. v1994? Oculina nordenskjoeldi (Felix, 1909): Filkorn, p. 71, figs 26 (1–4) (older synonyms cited therein). v1999 Pleurocora cf. alternans Milne-Edwards & Haime, 1849: Baron-Szabo, p. 455, pl. 3, fig. 2. 2000 Pleurocora nordenskjoldi, Felix 1909: Löser, p. 56. 2000 Pleurocora haueri, Milne-Edwards & Haime 1849: Löser, p. 66. 2002 Pleurocora haueri Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848: Baron-Szabo, p. 106. Text-Fig. 24 Pleurocora haueri Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848d, Campanian-Maastrichtian of Antarctica (syntype of Oculina Nordenskjˆldi Felix, 1909, NRZ Cn94), cross view, oblique, polished surface, scale bar: 5 mm (from Filkorn 1994, see full reference in Reference list; copyright 1994 by the American Geophysical Union; reproduced by permission of American Geophysical Union). Dimensions. d = 5–7 mm, juveniles around 3.5 mm; s=32–48 Description. Subdendroid colony; costosepta developed in 4 incomplete or complete cycles in 6 systems; pali occur in front of oldest cycle, usually fuse with the columella; columella trabecular, irregularly papillose or made of twisted segments. Remarks. The systematic position of Oculina Nordenskjöldi Felix has been dicussed for nearly a century. In the original description even Felix himself expressed some doubts about the assignment of the syntypes to the genus Oculina. Filkorn (1994, figs 26 [1–2]) gave the first photographic illustration of the syntypes. He also ...