Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Psammocora profundacella
coral pétreo, Stony coral, branched sanpaper contigua
Forms grey or brown submassives or laminar colonies.
Colonies uncommon in Galapagos but found on rocky substrates and rubble from shallow water to 20 m depth.
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Cnidaria
Class
Anthozoa
Order
Scleractinia
Family
Psammocoridae
Genus
Psammocora
Species
profundacella
Taxon category: Accepted
Syn.: Psammocora (Plesioseris) samoensis Hoffmeister, 1925, Psammocora (Plesioseris) superficialis Gardiner, 1898, Psammocora samoensis Hoffmeister, 1925, Psammocora superficialis Gardiner, 1898, Psammocora superficilaes Gardiner, 1898 (Horton et al., 2021)
Taxon origin: Native
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Found in Hawaii, the Indo-Pacific, and from Mexico to Ecuador, including Galapagos Islands in Darwin, Pinzon.
- 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.
- 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.
- Durham, W.J. (1962) Corals from the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences 32 (2): 41-56.
- 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.