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ASlrea
P/esjastraea
Pavia
Orbice/lo
Plesiastreo
Piesiastrea versipora (LAMARCK ), 1816
(Plate 33, Figs. 2-S)
versjpora 181 6 . LAMARCK, 264 (Type' localiry : Indian Ocean).
versipora 1851, MILNE EDWARDS (& HAIME), 490j pI. 0715 .
versipora 1914 , MATIHAI, 103 ; pis. 23/3; 2515. 6 , 9; 37/ 3.
versipo ra 19 18. VAUCHAN. 8S;pl. 28/t.
versipora 1971 . CHEVALlER, 29S;pls. 33 /4;34/3 .
1914. PILLAI & SCHEER. 44.
1911. WljSMAN-BEST. 93, pI. 4/ 1- 4.
1977. VERON, PICHON & WIJSMAN-8EST, 14-9; figs. 284-294 (synonymy).
1980. HEAD. 151 , 456_
VERON, PICHON & WljSM AN-BEST (1977) mention under " Distribution" of the species also Red Sea.
We don't know who is the informant for this statement, because no other worker before has reported
the species from Red Sea. Therefore HEAD (1980), who has found two specimens on a fringing reef off
Port Sudan, writes this is " the first record for the Red Sea". We have got one specimen from D. PASCHKE
of the University of Stuttgart, which he has coUected in the Gulf of Aqaba.
Material :
Gulf of Aqaba: Stuttg. Pa 811209 (EI Hibeiq).
Dist r ibution: Red Sea; Western Indian Ocean; Cocos-Keeling Isis. ; China Sea to Taiwan and
Ryukyu Isis.; Celebes; Palau Isis. ; Great Barrier Reef; Mariana Isis.; Caroline Isis.; Marshall Isis .; ew
Caledonia ; Fiji Isis.
Additional rem ark s to another ge nus of Subfamily MOlltastreinae :
Genus Montastrea de BLAINV I LLE , 1830
The history of the two genera Montastrea and Plesiastrea in systematical respect is discussed in detail
by Wlj SMAN-BEST (1977). MATTHAI (1914) united the two genera with Favia. VAUGHA & WELLS
( 1943) put Plesiastrea into Subfamily Faviinae and Montastrea into Montastreinae, the latter genus confined
to the Atalantic region . WljSMA N-BEST (1972: 11 ) excluded Plesiastrea from Favii nae and incorporated
it into Montastreinae because of its dominant extratentacular budding . In contrary to WELLS
(1956), CHEVA LIER (1971) opined that Montastrea occurs also in the Indo-Pacific regio n. CHEVALIER
united the twO species M. annuligera and M. curta, but WljSMA N-BEST (1977) separated them in her
revision of the two above mentioned genera.
Montastrea annuiigera (M IL E EDWARDS & HAIME) , 1849, is very similar, if not identical, to Piesiastrea
versipora, only the paliform lobes are less distinct. Under " Material" WljSMAN-BEST (1977) refers [0
specimens from Red Sea in the collection SCHUHMACHER (U niversity Bochum). We state this without
comments.
Family Trachyphylliidae VERR ILL, 1901
Genus Tra chyphyllia MILNE EDWARDS and HAIME, 1848
Ty pes pee i e s: Turbinoiia geo[[royi AUDOUlN, 1826.
G e n e ric c h a r act e r s: Corallum trochoid in young stage, flabello-meandroid in adult; young
ones attached, later sometimes becoming free. Calices long, compressed. Septa close together, exsert,
edges dentate, lower half with a deep cleft and a conspicuous paliform lobe. Columella trabecular, linked
by lamellae. Costae subequal, exsert and with subequal teeth.
The genus is represented by a single species in Red Sea.
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