WoRMS taxon details

Acropora polystoma (Brook, 1891)

207050  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207050)

accepted
Species
Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Acropora massawensis von Marenzeller, 1907 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Madrepora (Polystachys) polystoma Brook, 1891 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Madrepora polystoma Brook, 1891 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Madrepora polystoma Brook, 1891) Brook G (1891) Descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8: 458-471. [details]   
Holotype  (of Madrepora polystoma Brook, 1891) BMNH...  
Holotype (of Madrepora polystoma Brook, 1891) BMNH 1878.2.4.6, geounit Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Note Mauritius (Veron, 1986).  
From other sources
Type locality Mauritius (Veron, 1986). [details]
Description Colonies are corymbose, with thick irregular branches. Radial corallites are very irregular giving a spiny appearance....  
Description Colonies are corymbose, with thick irregular branches. Radial corallites are very irregular giving a spiny appearance. Colour: cream or yellow. Abundance: uncommon, restricted to upper reef slopes exposed to strong wave action (Veron, 1986). [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora polystoma (Brook, 1891). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207050 on 2024-04-19
Date
action
by
1996-10-25 14:03:33Z
created
2000-09-28 07:24:50Z
changed
Garcia, Maria
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
changed
2013-09-08 13:36:39Z
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original description  (of Acropora massawensis von Marenzeller, 1907) Marenzeller, E. von. (1907). Riffkorallen. In: Expeditionen S.M. "Pola" in das Rote Meer. Nördliche und Südliche Hälfte 1895/96 – 1897/98. <em>Zoologische Ergebnisse XXVI. Berichte der Kommission für Ozeanographische Forschungen. Denkschrift Akademischer Wissenschaften.</em> 80: 27-97, pls. 1-29. [details]   

original description  (of Madrepora polystoma Brook, 1891) Brook G (1891) Descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8: 458-471. [details]   

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS[details]   

basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em>  [details]   

additional source Lemmens, J. W. T. J. (1993). Reef-building corals (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) from the Watamu Marine National Reserve, Kenya; an annotated species list. <em>Zoologische mededelingen.</em> 67: 453-465. [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): 15 [details]   

additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Wallace CC, Done BJ, Muir PR (2012) Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 57: 1-255. [details]   

additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33.
page(s): 25 [details]   

additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555
page(s): 26, 51 [details]   

additional source Boshoff, P.H. (1981). An annotated checklist of Southern Africa Scleractinia. <em>Oceanographic Research Institute Investigational Report, Durban.</em> 49: 1-45.
page(s): 12 [details]   

additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume I: Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 1, pp. 463.
page(s): 335 [details]   

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details]   

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Schmerfeld, J. (2004). Coral survey from Howland Island National Wildlife Refuge, 1998-2004 [Table 3]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details]   

additional source Maragos, J. E. (2004). Baker Island coral data [Table unnumbered]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details]   

additional source Kenyon, J. (2008). Acropora (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) reproductive synchrony and spawning phenology in the Northern Line Islands, central Pacific, as inferred from size classes of developing oocytes. Pacific Science, 62(4): 569-578
page(s): 573 [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): 62, 73, 112 [details]   

additional source Wallace, C. C.; Fellegara, I.; Muir, P. R.; Harrison, P. L. (2009). The scleractinian corals of Moreton Bay, eastern Australia: high latitude, marginal assemblages with increasing species richness. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 54, 2
page(s): 8 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype (of Madrepora polystoma Brook, 1891) BMNH 1878.2.4.6, geounit Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G27878, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G27879, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G27880, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G27881, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G27882, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G27883, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G28293, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G28294, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G28296, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G28297, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G28298, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G28299, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G28300, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G28301, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G34140, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G34989, geounit New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G38243, geounit New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G39817, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G39940, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G39941, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G39946, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G43475, geounit Samoan Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G43812, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G43813, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G43814, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G45811, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G46843, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G47075, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G47253, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G47552, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G47553, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G47554, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G47555, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G47556, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G47622, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G47744, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G47745, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G47746, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G48309, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G48323, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G48329, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G49348, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G50382, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G50383, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G50384, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G50385, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G50386, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G50539, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G50540, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G50541, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G50889, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G51098, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G51099, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G51100, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G51101, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G51102, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G51103, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G51104, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G52224, geounit Taiwanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G52419, geounit Indonesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G53425, geounit Papua New Guinean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G53426, geounit Papua New Guinean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G53427, geounit Papua New Guinean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G54271, geounit American Samoa Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G54272, geounit American Samoa Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G54407, geounit Papua New Guinean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G54669, geounit Niue Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G54838, geounit Thailand Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G54851, geounit Yemeni Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Acropora (Acropora) polystoma (Brook, 1891)) MTQ G54852, geounit Yemeni Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR 8520, geounit Yemeni Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR 8881, geounit Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From other sources
Biology zooxanthellate [details]

Description Colonies are corymbose, with thick irregular branches. Radial corallites are very irregular giving a spiny appearance. Colour: cream or yellow. Abundance: uncommon, restricted to upper reef slopes exposed to strong wave action (Veron, 1986). [details]

Type locality Mauritius (Veron, 1986). [details]
LanguageName 
Japanese タバネミドリイシ  [details]