Galapagos Species Database

The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.

Enallopsammia rostrata (Pourtalès, 1878)

coral pétreo, Stony coral

Taxonomy

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

Distribution

Distribution: Cosmopolitan in distribution.

References

  • 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.