Scolymia
Haime, 1852, p. 279
Type Species
Madrepora lacera Pallas, 1766, p. 298; Subsequent Designation Vaughan, 1901, p. 6
Type Specimen: Unknown; ; Lost; Unknown
Type Locality: "Mare Americanum" (Pallas, 1766, p. 298)
Pallas (1766) cites "Aldrov. mus. metall", "Mus. Richter", "Seba", and "Knorr" as specimens of this species. All of these specimens are lost.
Classification
Remarks
Scolymia was synonymized with Mussa in Wells 1956 (p.F418), but was later removed from synonymy in Wells (1964, p.381). Veron (2000) designated Madrepora cubensis Milne Edwards and Haime 1849 as the type species of Scolymia, after synonymizing Scolymia lacera (Pallas, 1766) with Mussa angulosa (Pallas, 1766).
Distribution
- Central America; Miocene
- South America; Miocene
- West Asia; Miocene
- Central America, Caribbean; Pliocene - Pleistocene
- Melanesia; Pliocene
- Caribbean; Pliocene
- Australasia; Pleistocene
- Polynesia; Pleistocene
- Central America; Pleistocene
- Caribbean; Pleistocene
- Indian Ocean; Recent
- Western Pacific; Recent
- Central Pacific; Recent
- Western Atlantic; Recent
- North America; Holocene
- Caribbean; Holocene
Source: Paleobiology database (accessed June 20th, 2012), Veron (2000). Wells lists Scolymia as a junior synonym of Mussa (Wells, 1956). Distribution compiled by Matthew Tibbits.This page has been in preparation since 06-Oct-2009 22:48
This version was contributed by Ann Budd on 03-Jul-2012 19:31.
Page authors are: Ann Budd. Please contact the editor if you would like to contribute to the diagnosis of this taxon.
The editor is: Ann Budd
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