WoRMS taxon details
Hoplangia durotrix Gosse, 1860
135160 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:135160)
accepted
Species
Gemmulatotrochus simplex Duncan, 1878 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Hoplangia durotrix f. neopolitana Döderlein, 1913 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Hoplangia durotrix var. mediterranea Joubin, 1930 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Hoplangia durotrix var. neopolitana Döderlein, 1913 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Microcyathus neapolitanus Döderlein, 1913 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Soljania neapolitana (Döderlein, 1913) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Forma Hoplangia durotrix f. neopolitana Döderlein, 1913 accepted as Hoplangia durotrix Gosse, 1860 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Hoplangia durotrix var. mediterranea Joubin, 1930 accepted as Hoplangia durotrix Gosse, 1860 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Hoplangia durotrix var. meridionalis Best, 1969 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Variety Hoplangia durotrix var. neopolitana Döderlein, 1913 accepted as Hoplangia durotrix Gosse, 1860 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Gosse, P.H., 1860. Actinologia Britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. London: Van Voorst : pp. i-xl, 1-362. [details]
Holotype NHMUK 1934.12.5.6, verbatimGeounit Recent:...
, Note Recent: English Channel
Holotype NHMUK 1934.12.5.6, verbatimGeounit Recent: English Chan... [details]
Type locality Recent: English Channel [details]
Depth range 0-150 m
Depth range 0-150 m [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Hoplangia durotrix Gosse, 1860. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=135160 on 2025-04-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Gosse, P.H., 1860. Actinologia Britannica. A history of the British sea-anemones and corals. London: Van Voorst : pp. i-xl, 1-362. [details]
original description (of Gemmulatotrochus simplex Duncan, 1878) Duncan PM. (1878). A Description of the Madreporaria dredged up during the Expeditions of H.M.S. Porcupine' in 1869 and 1870. – Part. II. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 10: 235-249, pls. 43-45., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1873.tb00560.x [details]
original description (of Microcyathus neapolitanus Döderlein, 1913) Döderlein L. (1913). Die Steinkorallen aus dem Golf von Neapel. <em>Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel.</em> 21: 105-152, pls. 7-9. [details]
original description (of Hoplangia durotrix var. mediterranea Joubin, 1930) Joubin ML. (1930). Note sur un coralliaire nouveau, Hoplangia pallaryi, de la Méditerranée. <em>Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Série 2.</em> 2(4): 412-417. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Gemmulatotrochus simplex Duncan, 1878) Duncan PM. (1878). A Description of the Madreporaria dredged up during the Expeditions of H.M.S. Porcupine' in 1869 and 1870. – Part. II. <em>Transactions of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 10: 235-249, pls. 43-45., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1873.tb00560.x [details]
original description (of Microcyathus neapolitanus Döderlein, 1913) Döderlein L. (1913). Die Steinkorallen aus dem Golf von Neapel. <em>Mitteilungen aus der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel.</em> 21: 105-152, pls. 7-9. [details]
original description (of Hoplangia durotrix var. mediterranea Joubin, 1930) Joubin ML. (1930). Note sur un coralliaire nouveau, Hoplangia pallaryi, de la Méditerranée. <em>Bulletin du Muséum national d'histoire naturelle, Série 2.</em> 2(4): 412-417. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., Hoeksema, B.W., and J. van der Land, 2001. Scleractinia, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 109-110 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Cairns, S.D. (1995). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa. <em>New Zealand Oceanographic Memoir.</em> 103: 1-210. [details] Available for editors 
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redescription Zibrowius H. (1980). Les scléractiniaires de la Méditerranée et de l'Atlantique nord-oriental. <em>Mémoires de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco.</em> 11: 1-284, pls. 1-117. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 1213 [details] Available for editors [request]
[request]redescription Zibrowius H. (1980). Les scléractiniaires de la Méditerranée et de l'Atlantique nord-oriental. <em>Mémoires de l'Institut océanographique, Monaco.</em> 11: 1-284, pls. 1-117. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 1213 [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Gili, J.M., 1982. Fauna de cnidaris de les illes Medes. Treballs Inst. Cat. Hist. nat. 10 : 1-175.
page(s): 128 fig. 61 E, 132 [details]
additional source Rioja y Martín, J., 1906. Datos para el conocimiento de la fauna marina de España. Celentéreos de la estación de Biología de Santander. Bolm R. Soc. esp. Hist. nat. 6 6: 275-280.
page(s): 280 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 459: 13-46.
page(s): 22 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D. (2009-2017). On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. <em>In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats.</em> Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hincks, T. (1861). A catalogue of the zoophytes of South Devon and South Cornwall. <em>The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology.</em> 8(3): 152-161, 251-262, 290-297, pls 6-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/60917#/summary
page(s): 364 [details]
additional source Brito A, Ocaña O. (2004). Corals of the Canary Islands. Skeleton anthozoans of the littoral and deep bottoms. <em>Francisco Lemus, La Laguna.</em> 1-477 pp. [details]
additional source Kružić P. (2002). Marine fauna of the Mljet National Park (Adriatic Sea, Croatia). 1. Anthozoa. <em>Natura Croatica.</em> 11: 265-292. [details]
additional source Rossi L. (1957). Revisione critica dei Madreporarii del Mar Ligure. <em>Doriana.</em> 2 (76): 1-19, pls. 1-4.
page(s): 2, 4, 14-15 [details]
additional source Grebelny, S. D. (1982). Symmetriya aktinei i ee znachenie dlya klassifikatsii Anthozoa [Symmetry of actinians and its significance for the classification of Anthozoa]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR [Academy of Sciences of the USSR]. Vladivostok., pp. 101-123
page(s): 120 [details]
additional source Rossi, L. (1961). Études sur le seuil Siculo -Tunisien. 6. Madréporaires. Campagne de la Calypso (août-septembre 1954). Annales de l'Institute Oceanographique, 5, 169-173
page(s): 37, 47 [details]
additional source Zibrowius, H.; Grieshaber, A. (1977). Scléractinaires de l'Adriatique. Tethys, 7, 4, 375-384
page(s): 380, 383 [details]
additional source Best MB. (1969). Étude systématique et écologique des madréporaires de la région de Banyuls-sur-Mer (Pyrénées-Orientales). <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 20, A, 2, 293-325.
page(s): 296, 310-312, 320 [details]
additional source Zibrowius, H.; Saldanha, L. (1976). Sclératiniaires récoltés en plongée au Portugal et dans les archipels de Madère et des Açores. Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciencias Naturais, 16, 91-114
page(s): 92, 94, 102, 106 [details]
additional source Rossi, L. (1956). Osservazioni ecologiche su alcuni Antozoi del golfo di Genova. Bollettino di Zoologia, 23(2): 237-246
page(s): 239, 241 [details]
additional source Bitar, G.; Zibrowius, H. (1997). Scleractinian corals from Lebanon, Eastern Mediterranean, including a non-lessepsian invading species (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Scientia Marina, 61(2): 227-231
page(s): 227 [details]
additional source Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 63, 95, 111 [details]
additional source Picard J. (1952). Notes sur deux espèces de Madréporaires communes à la Manche et à la Méditerranée. <em>Bulletin du Laboratoire Maritime de Dinard.</em> 36 : 5-7. [details]
additional source Duclaux G, Lafargue F. (1972). Madréporaires de Méditerranée occidentale. Recherche des Zooxanthelles symbiontiques. Compléments morphologiques et écologiques. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 23 (1A): 45-63. [details]
additional source Gili, J.M., 1982. Fauna de cnidaris de les illes Medes. Treballs Inst. Cat. Hist. nat. 10 : 1-175.
page(s): 128 fig. 61 E, 132 [details]
additional source Rioja y Martín, J., 1906. Datos para el conocimiento de la fauna marina de España. Celentéreos de la estación de Biología de Santander. Bolm R. Soc. esp. Hist. nat. 6 6: 275-280.
page(s): 280 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 459: 13-46.
page(s): 22 [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D. (2009-2017). On line appendix: Phylogenetic list of the 711 valid Recent azooxanthellate scleractinian species with their junior synonyms and depth ranges, 28 pp. <em>In: Cold-Water Corals: The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats.</em> Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hincks, T. (1861). A catalogue of the zoophytes of South Devon and South Cornwall. <em>The Annals and magazine of natural history; zoology, botany, and geology.</em> 8(3): 152-161, 251-262, 290-297, pls 6-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/part/60917#/summary
page(s): 364 [details]
additional source Brito A, Ocaña O. (2004). Corals of the Canary Islands. Skeleton anthozoans of the littoral and deep bottoms. <em>Francisco Lemus, La Laguna.</em> 1-477 pp. [details]
additional source Kružić P. (2002). Marine fauna of the Mljet National Park (Adriatic Sea, Croatia). 1. Anthozoa. <em>Natura Croatica.</em> 11: 265-292. [details]
additional source Rossi L. (1957). Revisione critica dei Madreporarii del Mar Ligure. <em>Doriana.</em> 2 (76): 1-19, pls. 1-4.
page(s): 2, 4, 14-15 [details]
additional source Grebelny, S. D. (1982). Symmetriya aktinei i ee znachenie dlya klassifikatsii Anthozoa [Symmetry of actinians and its significance for the classification of Anthozoa]. Akademiya Nauk SSSR [Academy of Sciences of the USSR]. Vladivostok., pp. 101-123
page(s): 120 [details]
additional source Rossi, L. (1961). Études sur le seuil Siculo -Tunisien. 6. Madréporaires. Campagne de la Calypso (août-septembre 1954). Annales de l'Institute Oceanographique, 5, 169-173
page(s): 37, 47 [details]
additional source Zibrowius, H.; Grieshaber, A. (1977). Scléractinaires de l'Adriatique. Tethys, 7, 4, 375-384
page(s): 380, 383 [details]
additional source Best MB. (1969). Étude systématique et écologique des madréporaires de la région de Banyuls-sur-Mer (Pyrénées-Orientales). <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 20, A, 2, 293-325.
page(s): 296, 310-312, 320 [details]
additional source Zibrowius, H.; Saldanha, L. (1976). Sclératiniaires récoltés en plongée au Portugal et dans les archipels de Madère et des Açores. Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciencias Naturais, 16, 91-114
page(s): 92, 94, 102, 106 [details]
additional source Rossi, L. (1956). Osservazioni ecologiche su alcuni Antozoi del golfo di Genova. Bollettino di Zoologia, 23(2): 237-246
page(s): 239, 241 [details]
additional source Bitar, G.; Zibrowius, H. (1997). Scleractinian corals from Lebanon, Eastern Mediterranean, including a non-lessepsian invading species (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). Scientia Marina, 61(2): 227-231
page(s): 227 [details]
additional source Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 63, 95, 111 [details]
additional source Picard J. (1952). Notes sur deux espèces de Madréporaires communes à la Manche et à la Méditerranée. <em>Bulletin du Laboratoire Maritime de Dinard.</em> 36 : 5-7. [details]
additional source Duclaux G, Lafargue F. (1972). Madréporaires de Méditerranée occidentale. Recherche des Zooxanthelles symbiontiques. Compléments morphologiques et écologiques. <em>Vie et Milieu.</em> 23 (1A): 45-63. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype NHMUK 1934.12.5.6, verbatimGeounit Recent: English Chan... [details]
Nontype AIM AK76084, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype AIM AK78002, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype AIM AK78002, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype AIM AK78093, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype AIM AK78096, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype AIM AK78100, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype AIM AK78226, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype AIM AK78232, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype AIM AK78394, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype AUH AU6097, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMNZ AK78233, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMNZ CO243, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR 9043, geounit Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype USNM 94586, geounit New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Syntype (of Microcyathus neapolitanus Döderlein, 1913) 1069, verbatimGeounit Recent: off Naples, ... [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Recent: English Channel [details]Unreviewed
Biology azooxanthellate [details]Depth range 0-150 m [details]
Habitat shelf [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Weymouth carpet coral | [details] |
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Microcyathus neapolitanus Döderlein, 1913)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hoplangia durotrix)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (475 records)
To ITIS
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Microcyathus neapolitanus Döderlein, 1913)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hoplangia durotrix)
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (475 records)
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
