Galapagos Species Database

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Agaricia clavus (Dana, 1846), Lophoseris clavus (Dana, 1846), Pavona (Pavona) clivosa (Verrill, 1869), Pavona (Pseudocolumnastrea) galapagensis Durham & Barnard, 1952, Pavona clivosa (Verrill, 1869), Pavona galapagensis Durham & Barnard, 1952, Pavona lilacea (Klunzinger, 1879), Pavona liliacea (Klunzinger, 1879), Pavona sphaeroidalis (Ortmann, 1889), Pavonia clavus Dana, 1846, Pavonia clivosa Verrill, 1869, Pavonia liliacea Klunzinger, 1879, Siderastraea clava (Dana, 1846), Siderastraea lilacea Klunzinger, 1879, Siderastrea clava (Dana, 1846), Siderastrea clavus (Dana, 1846), Siderastrea lilacea Klunzinger, 1879, Siderastrea sphaeroidalis Ortmann, 1889, Stylocoeniella paumotensis Chevalier, 1975, Tichoseris clavus (Dana, 1846) (Horton et al., 2021)

Origin: Native

Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.

Distribution: Panamà, Colombia, Clipperton, Hawaii, Line, Marquesas, Tuamotus, Pitcairn-Ducie, Tahiti, Gulf of California, Pearl islands, La Plata Island, the Red Sea, throughout the Indo-Pacific and Ecuador including the central Galapagos Bioregion in throughout, except Fernandina and W Isabela

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• Hickman, C.P. Jr. (2008) A field guide to corals and other radiates of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 162 pp.
• 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.
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• Hickman, C.P. Jr. Chiriboga, A., Ober, W.C. (2005) A field guide to corals of Galápagos. Sugar Spring Press, Lexington, Virginia, 54 pp.
• Hickman, C.P. Jr. (2009) Evolutionary Responses of Marine Invertebrates to Insular Isolation in Galapagos. Journal of Science and Conservation in the Galapagos Islands, p. 32-42.
• Banks, S. Vera, M. & Chiriboga, A. (2009) Establishing Reference Points to Assess Long-Term Change in Zooxanthellate Coral Communities of the Northern Galapagos Coral Reefs. J. Sci. Conserv. in the Galapagos Islands, p. 43-64.
• 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.