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Manicina

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Description

Manicina is a genus of reef-building stony corals in the family Mussidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicina, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2260110	https://www.gbif.org/species/2260110
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	6587	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=6587

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Faviidae : Manicina

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
phylum	Cnidaria	Hatschek 1888
class	Anthozoa	Ehrenberg 1834
subclass	Zoantharia	de Blainville 1830
order	Scleractinia	Bourne 1900
suborder	Faviina	Vaughan and Wells 1943
superfamily	Faviicae	Gregory 1900
family	Faviidae	Gregory 1900
genus	Manicina	Ehrenberg 1834

Scientific Name

Manicina Ehrenberg, 1834

Name Published In

Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin. 1: 225-380.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Manicina	genus	belongs to Faviidae	stated with evidence	Johnson, 1998
Manicina	genus	belongs to Scleractinia	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (25%)

First Recorded Appearance

66.0 - 61.7 Ma
Paleocene

Environment

marine (based on Scleractinia)

Motility

facultatively mobile

Vision

blind (based on Anthozoa)

Diet

microcarnivore

Reproduction

alternating, asexual, dispersal=water,planktonic (based on Scleractinia)

Ecospace Comments

ECOSPACE CODE: 331.

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Faviidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manicina

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Manicina areolata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		108	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Manicina geisteri species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	11.6 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Manicina grandis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		41	11.6 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Manicina hydnophoroidea ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		2	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous	66.0 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Manicina jungi species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		16	11.6 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Manicina navicula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Manicina pliocenica species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	5.33 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Manicina praerupta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Manicina puntagordensis species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		18	11.6 Ma Miocene	2.59 Ma Pleistocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Podasteria Ehrenberg, 1834	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Faviidae : *Podasteria*
Teleiophyllia Duncan, 1864	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Cnidaria : Anthozoa : Scleractinia : Faviidae : *Teleiophyllia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1834	Manicina Ehrenberg
1864	Teleiophyllia Duncan
1956	Teleiophyllia Wells
1998	Manicina Johnson p. 1268
2000	Manicina Veron p. 99
2002	Manicina Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Teleiophyllia Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Wells J. W. (1956) Scleractinia, Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology F, 328-444

Johnson K. G. (1998) A phylogenetic test of accelerated turnover in Neogene Caribbean brain corals (Scleractinia: Faviidae), Palaeontology 41 6, 1247-1268

Veron J.E.N. (2000) , Corals of the World

van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). - via World Register of Marine Species

Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1832 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia. - via World Register of Marine Species

Wells, John W., 1986: null. A List of Scleractinian generic and subgeneric taxa, 1758-1985, (special issue). 69. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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