WoRMS taxon details
Boninastrea Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935
267271 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267271)
accepted
Genus
Boninastrea boninensis Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935 (type by original designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403. [details]
Description 'Corallum compound, massive; calicular surface strongly convex. Epitheca indicated by fine ringlets of growth, thin,...
Description 'Corallum compound, massive; calicular surface strongly convex. Epitheca indicated by fine ringlets of growth, thin, conspicuous, covering almost entirely underside. Calices numerous, subpolygonal, irregular in shape and arrangement oblique; usually one to three or more in number circumscribed in group by incomplete, oblique collines. Occasionally several of the groups are further bounded by prominent, incomplete, oblique ridges. In each group calices connected by trabecular bridges instead of toothed lamellae. Septa not numerous, up to three cycles, those of the first and some of the second cycles more stout and more prominent than others; their free ends strongly divided in irregular manner, to filiform processes. Surface of septa minutely granulated. Columella absent? Dissepiments numerous, vesicular. Growth by fission.' (Yabe and Sugiyama, 1935: 402) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Boninastrea Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267271 on 2024-04-16
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original description
Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403. [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details]
additional source Best MB, Suharsono. (1991). New observations on scleractinian corals from Indonesia: 3. Species belonging to the Merulinidae with new records of Merulina and Boninastrea. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 65: 333-342. [details]
additional source Huang D, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Budd AF (2014) Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355. [details]
additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 702 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details]
additional source Best MB, Suharsono. (1991). New observations on scleractinian corals from Indonesia: 3. Species belonging to the Merulinidae with new records of Merulina and Boninastrea. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 65: 333-342. [details]
additional source Huang D, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Budd AF (2014) Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355. [details]
additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 702 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Comparison In comparison with genera that have been in Merulinidae before Budd et al. (2012), it does not appear to share the small calice width, low relief, equal costosepta thickness, well-developed paliform lobes, absence of epitheca and sparse endotheca with Merulina and Scapophyllia. Its size and lack of lobes are akin to most Hydnophora spp., and the 'prominent, incomplete, oblique ridges' are analogous to monticules of Hydnophora, but homology cannot be ascertained without further sampling. [details]Description 'Corallum compound, massive; calicular surface strongly convex. Epitheca indicated by fine ringlets of growth, thin, conspicuous, covering almost entirely underside. Calices numerous, subpolygonal, irregular in shape and arrangement oblique; usually one to three or more in number circumscribed in group by incomplete, oblique collines. Occasionally several of the groups are further bounded by prominent, incomplete, oblique ridges. In each group calices connected by trabecular bridges instead of toothed lamellae. Septa not numerous, up to three cycles, those of the first and some of the second cycles more stout and more prominent than others; their free ends strongly divided in irregular manner, to filiform processes. Surface of septa minutely granulated. Columella absent? Dissepiments numerous, vesicular. Growth by fission.' (Yabe and Sugiyama, 1935: 402) [details]
Diagnosis Colonial, with intracalicular budding only. Corallites monomorphic and uniserial; monticules absent. Walls fused. Calice width medium (4–15 mm), with medium relief (3–6 mm). Costosepta confluent. Septa in < 3 cycles (< 24 septa). Free septa present but irregular. Septa spaced 6–11 septa per 5 mm. Costosepta unequal in relative thickness. Columellae trabecular but compact (1–3 threads) or absent, < 1/4 of calice width, and continuous among adjacent corallites. Paliform (uniaxial) lobes weak or absent. Epitheca well developed and endotheca abundant (vesicular). [details]
Remark Boninastrea Yabe and Sugiyama, 1935: 402 is a monotypic genus that has only been collected twice, once each in Japan (type locality) and Indonesia, and never for molecular analysis. We do not have sufficient data to place it on the tree, but note that it has been described as a 'mussoid [sic] coral, recalling Symphyllia and Isophyllia in general feature' (Yabe and Sugiyama, 1935: 402), but later placed in Merulinidae (prior to Budd et al., 2012) by Veron (1986: 594), Best and Suharsono (1991: 339) and Veron (2000, vol. 3: 382). [details]
