WoRMS name details

Platygyra ascensionis Ridley, 1881

740902  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:740902)

 unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Ridley, S.O. (1881). Madreporaria. Report on a collection made by Mr. T. Conry in Ascension Island. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser 5).</em> 8: 438–440. [details]   
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Platygyra ascensionis Ridley, 1881. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=740902 on 2024-04-24
Date
action
by
2013-09-16 15:20:51Z
created
2022-06-05 15:00:04Z
changed

Creative Commons License The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License


original description Ridley, S.O. (1881). Madreporaria. Report on a collection made by Mr. T. Conry in Ascension Island. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Ser 5).</em> 8: 438–440. [details]   

basis of record Hoeksema, B. W. (2012). Extreme morphological plasticity enables a free mode of life in Favia gravida at Ascension Island (South Atlantic). <em>Marine Biodiversity.</em> 42(2): 289-295., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-011-0106-z [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. <em>Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Hoeksema BW, Wirtz P. (2013). Over 130 years of survival by a small, isolated population of Favia gravida corals at Ascension Island (South Atlantic). <em>Coral Reefs.</em> 32(2): 551., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-012-1002-0 [details]