WoRMS taxon details
Leptastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
AphiaID: 204278
AphiaID: 204278
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Scleractinia incertae sedis (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Scleractinia incertae sedis | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. Stylasteridae, Scleractinia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] additional source: Nomenclator Zoologicus, available online at http://uio.mbl.edu/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Leptastrea aequalis Veron, 2002 Species Leptastrea bewickensis Veron, Pichon & Best, 1977 Species Leptastrea bottae (Edwards & Haime, 1849) Species Leptastrea inaequalis Klunzinger, 1879 Species Leptastrea pruinosa Crossland, 1952 Species Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) Species Leptastrea transversa Klunzinger, 1879 Species Leptastrea ehrenbergana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) Species Leptastrea immersa Klunzinger accepted as Leptastrea bottae (Edwards & Haime, 1849) | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colonies are massive, usually flat or dome-shaped. Corallites are subcerioid to plocoid. Costae are poorly developed or absent. Columellae consist of vertical pinnules. Septa have inward-projecting teeth. Polyps are usually extended only at night (except L. pruinosa) (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] Remark: Type species: Leptastrea roissyana Edwards & Haime, 1848 from the "Indian Ocean" (Veron, 1986). [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204278 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Leptastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204278 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||||||||
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