Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Enallopsammia rostrata
coral pétreo, Stony coral
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Anthozoa
Order
Scleractinia
Family
Dendrophylliidae
Genus
Enallopsammia
Species
rostrata
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Amphihelia adminicularis Rehberg, 1892, Amphihelia rostrata Pourtales, 1878, Coenopsammia amphelioides Vaughan, 1907, Coenopsammia amphelioides var. cucullata Vaughan, 1907, Dendrophyllia amphelioides Alcock, 1902, Enallopsammia amphleioides, Enallopsammia amphleioides var. disticha Eguchi, 1968
Origin: Native
- Appeltans, W. Bouchet, P., Boxshall, G.A., Fauchald, K., Gordon, D.P., Hoeksema, B.W., Poore, G.C.B., van Soest, R.W.M., Stöhr, S., Walter, T.C., Costello, M.J. (eds.) (2010) World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS). Available online at http://www.marinespecies.org.
- Wells, J.W. (1983) Annotated list of the scleractinian corals of the Galápagos. In: Glynn, P.W. & Wellington, G.M.: Corals and coral reefs of the Galápagos Islands. University of California Press, Berkley, Los Angeles, London, 213-291 p.
- Cairns, S.D. (1991) A revision of the Ahermatypic Scleractinia of the Galápagos and the Cocos Islands. Smithsonian Contrib. Zool. 504: 1-44.
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
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"Galapagos Species Database, Enallopsammia rostrata", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=14431. Accessed 25 April 2025.