Phyllangia americana subsp. americana americana Milne Edwards & Haime 1849
Creators: name: Reyes, Javier
name: Santodomingo, Nadiezhda
name: Cairns, Stephen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2009
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Cnidaria
Anthozoa
Scleractinia
Caryophylliidae
Phyllangia
Phyllangia americana
Phyllangia americana americana milne edwards &amp; haime, 1849

description: Phyllangia americana americana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849   
Figs. 4F–G  
 Phyllangia americana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849b: 182.— Pourtalès, 1871: 30, 79.— Vaughan, 1901: 299.— Duerden, 1902: 555–558, pl. 5, fig. 46, text-fig. 9h (histology and description of living polyps).— Vaughan & Wells, 1943: 178.— Almy & Carrión-Torres, 1963: 156, fig. 15b.— Goreau & Wells, 1967: 448.— Weisbord, 1968: 68–71, pl. 10, fig. 3, pl. 11, fig. 1 (synonymy).— Smith, 1971: 87–88.— Roos, 1971: 74, pl. 36, figs. a–b.— Olivares & Leonard, 1971: 64, pl. 8, figs. C–D.— Porter, 1972: 111.— Wells & Lang, 1973: 57 (listed).— Erhardt, 1974: 406 (listed).— Weisbord, 1974: 403–405, pl. 46, figs. 4–5.— Colin, 1978: 262–263, colour fig. (p. 257).— Zibrowius, 1980: 137.— Cairns, 1982: 290, fig. 128e.— Zlatarski & Martínez, 1982: 127–129, pl. 41, figs. 1–5, pl. 42, figs. 1–3, pl. 43, figs. 1–6 (description and variation).— Castañares & Soto, 1982: Table 1 (listed).— Wood, 1983: colour fig. (p. 109).— Prahl & Erhardt, 1985: 102, fig. 83.— Hubbard & Wells, 1986: 129, figs. 10–12 (in part).—Prahl & Erhardt, 1989: 542, fig. 1.—Humann, 1993: 170–173, 3 colour figs.—Not Cairns et al., 1994: 8 (= P. pequegnatae Cairns, 2000).— Pires, 1997: 184.   
 Stellangia reptans Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860: 80, pl. 10, figs. 1–2.— Quelch, 1886: 12 (listed).   
 Phyllangia americana americana Cairns, 2000: 114–118, fig. 19, 135–140.— Kitahara, 2007: 502–503, fig. 3I.   
 Remarks: Cairns (2000) recognized two subspecies given the geographic separation, P. americana americana distributed in the western Atlantic, and P. americana mouchezii (Lacaze-Duthiers, 1897) distributed in the eastern Atlantic. P. americana americana is a common species, found elsewhere in Colombian waters, colonizing rocky substrates, mollusc shells, dead corals or any hard substrate; furthermore, single corallites or colonies have been observed on man-made structures such as buoys, pilings, docks and the offshore gas platforms located in La Guajira.   
 Distribution: Tropical western Atlantic, from Beaufort (North Carolina) to Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); ranging from 0 to 53 m depth (Cairns 2000). In Colombia, it has been collected from Honda Bay (La Guajira) to the Gulf of Morrosquillo; between 0 and 73 m depth.   
 Material: INV CNI 61, 1 corallite, BEM4466; INV CNI 194, 1 corallite, BEM1817; INV CNI 214, 1 corallite, BEM120; INV CNI 274, 1 corallite, BEM-E13456; INV CNI 583, 1 corallites, BEM3629; INV CNI 680, 1 corallite, E88; INV CNI 1459, 1 corallite, BEM4292; INV CNI 2157, 3 corallites, E214; INV CNI 2159, 5 corallites, E215; INV CNI 2199, 1 corallites, E202; INV CNI 2201, 8 corallites, E204; INV CNI 2203, 4 corallites, E201; INV CNI 2240, 1 corallites, E203; INV CNI 2293, 2 corallites, E214; INV CNI 2294, 1 corallites, E236; INV CNI 2311, 14 corallites, E214; INV CNI 2317, 2 corallites, E213.
description: Published as part of Reyes, Javier, Santodomingo, Nadiezhda & Cairns, Stephen, 2009, Caryophylliidae (Scleractinia) from the Colombian Caribbean, pp. 1-39 in Zootaxa 2262 (1) on page 24, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2262.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5306371