WoRMS taxon details
Astreopora Blainville, 1830
AphiaID: 204599
AphiaID: 204599
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Acroporidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Acroporidae Verrill, 1902 | |||||||||||||
| Source |
basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Astreopora acroporina Wallace, Turak & DeVantier, 2011 Species Astreopora cenderawasih Wallace, Turak & DeVantier, 2011 Species Astreopora cucullata Lamberts, 1980 Species Astreopora expansa (Brüggemann, 1877) Species Astreopora explanata Veron, 1985 Species Astreopora gracilis Bernard, 1896 Species Astreopora incrustans Species Astreopora kenti Bernard Species Astreopora lambertsi Moll & Best, 1984 Species Astreopora listeri Bernard, 1896 Species Astreopora macrostoma Veron & Wallace, 1984 Species Astreopora monteporina Wallace, Turak & DeVantier, 2011 Species Astreopora moretonensis Veron & Wallace, 1984 Species Astreopora myriophthalma (Lamarck, 1816) Species Astreopora ocellata Bernard Species Astreopora randalli Lamberts, 1980 Species Astreopora suggesta Wells, 1954 Species Astreopora horizontalis Bernard accepted as Astreopora listeri Bernard, 1896 Species Astreopora profunda Verrill accepted as Astreopora myriophthalma (Lamarck, 1816) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Kenya [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colonies are massive, laminar, encrusting or foliaceous. Corallites are immersed or conical with short, numerous, neatly spaced short septa. Columellae are deep-seated and compact. Corallite walls are slightly porous and the coenosteum and walls have few elaborations. Polyps are extended only at night. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details] Remark: Type species: Astraea myriophthalma Lamarck, 1816 (Veron, 1986). [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204599 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Astreopora Blainville, 1830. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204599 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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