WoRMS name details

Acropora danai (Milne Edwards, 1860)

206990  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206990)

 unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Madrepora danai Milne Edwards, 1860) Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS[details]   
Description Colonies consist of sprawling prostrate branches with upwardly projecting pointed ends at the periphery. Radial corallites...  
Description Colonies consist of sprawling prostrate branches with upwardly projecting pointed ends at the periphery. Radial corallites are like those of A. robusta. Colour : deep pinkish-brown or greenish-grey. Abundance: usually restricted to shallow reef environments. Common on reef margins exposed to strong wave action (Veron, 1986). [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora danai (Milne Edwards, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206990 on 2024-03-19
Date
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1996-10-25 12:59:01Z
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2000-09-28 07:24:50Z
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Garcia, Maria
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
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2014-02-04 21:27:13Z
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2019-10-09 16:43:43Z
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2022-08-11 16:37:21Z
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original description  (of Madrepora danai Milne Edwards, 1860) Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS[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 Sheppard CRC. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 307: 1-32., available online at http:// https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.307.1 [details]   

additional source Sheppard, C.R.C. (1998). Corals of the Indian Ocean: a taxonomic and distribution database for coral reef ecologists [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): 14 [details]   

additional source Wallace CC. (1999). Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. CSIRO, Collingwood (Australia). pp i-xvii, 1-421.  [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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Verrill AE. (1902). Notes on corals of the genus Acropora (Madrepora Lam.) with new descriptions and figures of types, and of several new species. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 11: 207-266, pls. 36, 36A-F.
page(s): 214 [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): 25, 50 [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 Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260(I): 385-486.
page(s): 390, 418-419, plate 111 [details]   

additional source Sheppard, C. R. C. (1985). Fringing reefs in the southern region, Jeddah to Jizan. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 37-58
page(s): 45 [details]   

additional source Sheppard, C. R. C.; Sheppard, A. L. S. (1985). The central Red Sea at Yanbu al Sinaiyah. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 17-36
page(s): 25, 26, 27, 29  [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Nontype WAM 186-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 192-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 227-74, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 241-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 242-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 251-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 321-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 345-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 39-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 40-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 476-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 482-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 490-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 523-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 547-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 640-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 65-74, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 738-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From other sources
Biology zooxanthellate [details]

Description Colonies consist of sprawling prostrate branches with upwardly projecting pointed ends at the periphery. Radial corallites are like those of A. robusta. Colour : deep pinkish-brown or greenish-grey. Abundance: usually restricted to shallow reef environments. Common on reef margins exposed to strong wave action (Veron, 1986). [details]

Spelling Spelled A. danae in Fauré (1977). Type locality: unrecorded (Veron, 1986). [details]
LanguageName 
Japanese トゲマツミドリイシ  [details]