WoRMS name details

Acanthastrea maxima Sheppard & Salm, 1988

288881  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:288881)

 unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Sheppard CRC, Salm RV. 1988. Reef and coral communities of Oman, with a description of a new coral species (Order Scleractinia, genus Acanthastrea). Journal of Natural History 22: 263-279. [details]   
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Acanthastrea maxima Sheppard & Salm, 1988. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288881 on 2024-03-19
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2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
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2014-04-14 08:03:13Z
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2015-02-26 23:14:45Z
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2022-07-25 19:50:16Z
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original description Sheppard CRC, Salm RV. 1988. Reef and coral communities of Oman, with a description of a new coral species (Order Scleractinia, genus Acanthastrea). Journal of Natural History 22: 263-279. [details]   

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

basis of record 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 Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em>  [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): 34 [details]   

additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume III: Families Mussidae, Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae, Poritidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 3, pp. 490.
page(s): 27 [details]   

new combination reference Arrigoni R, Berumen ML, Terraneo TI, Caragnano A, Bouwmeester J, Benzoni F. (2015). Forgotten in the taxonomic literature: resurrection of the scleractinian coral genus Sclerophyllia (Scleractinia, Lobophylliidae) from the Arabian Peninsula and its phylogenetic relationships. <em>Systematics and Biodiversity 13: 140-163.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2014.978915 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]
LanguageName 
English starry cup coral  [details]