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Issue: Vol. 4668 No. 4: 12 Sept. 2019
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2019-09-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4668.4.11
Page range: 599–600
Abstract views: 61
PDF downloaded: 1

Millepora platyphylla (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) range extended back to the Eastern Pacific, thanks to a new record from Clipperton Atoll

PSL Research University : EPHE-UPVD-CNRS, USR 3278 CRIOBE, Université de Perpignan, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France Laboratoire d’Excellence  CORAIL 
Biological, Environmental Science and Engineering Division, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 23955 Thuwal, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
THALASSA Marine Research & Environmental Awareness, 17 rue Gutenberg, 06000 NICE Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, INSERM, IRCAN, Medical School, Nice, France and Department of Medical Genetics, CHU of Nice, France.
UMR ENTROPIE, Université de La Réunion, 55 Avenue René Cassin, CS 92003, 97715 Saint-Denis Cedex 9, La Réunion, France
PSL Research University : EPHE-UPVD-CNRS, USR 3278 CRIOBE, Université de Perpignan, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan Cedex, France Laboratoire d’Excellence CORAIL
Coelenterata Cnidaria Hydrozoa

Abstract

The fire coral Millepora platyphylla Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) has a widespread Indo-Pacific distribution observed from the surface to 40 m (Razak & Hoeksema 2003). However, its extirpation from the East Pacific (Gulf of Chiriqui, Panama) was documented after the 1982-1983 bleaching event (Glynn & Weerdt 1991). Here, we report the discovery of 5 colonies of M. platyphylla from the eastern Pacific, specifically at Clipperton Atoll, during the TARA Pacific expedition (www.taraexpeditions.org).

 

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