WoRMS taxon details

Sclerophyllia maxima (Sheppard & Salm, 1988)

834701  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:834701)

accepted
Species
Acanthastrea maxima Sheppard & Salm, 1988 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Acanthastrea maxima Sheppard & Salm, 1988) 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. Sclerophyllia maxima (Sheppard & Salm, 1988). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=834701 on 2024-03-19
Date
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2015-02-26 23:14:45Z
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2022-06-21 13:11:58Z
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original description  (of Acanthastrea maxima Sheppard & Salm, 1988) 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]   

additional source Huang D, Arrigoni R, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Stolarski J, Chou LM, Budd AF. (2016). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 178(3): 436-481., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12391 [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 [from synonym]  [details]