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Acropora Oken, 1815

205469  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205469)

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  1. Species Acropora abrolhosensis Veron, 1985
  2. Species Acropora abrotanoides (Lamarck, 1816)
  3. Species Acropora aculeus (Dana, 1846)
  4. Species Acropora acuminata (Verrill, 1864)
  5. Species Acropora akajimensis Veron, 1990
  6. Species Acropora anthocercis (Brook, 1893)
  7. Species Acropora arabensis Hodgson & Carpenter, 1995
  8. Species Acropora aspera (Dana, 1846)
  9. Species Acropora austera (Dana, 1846)
  10. Species Acropora awi Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998
  11. Species Acropora batunai Wallace, 1997
  12. Species Acropora branchi Riegl, 1995
  13. Species Acropora bushyensis Veron & Wallace, 1984
  14. Species Acropora cardenae Wells, 1985
  15. Species Acropora carduus (Dana, 1846)
  16. Species Acropora caroliniana Nemenzo, 1976
  17. Species Acropora cerealis (Dana, 1846)
  18. Species Acropora cervicornis (Lamarck, 1816)
  19. Species Acropora chesterfieldensis Veron & Wallace, 1984
  20. Species Acropora clathrata (Brook, 1891)
  21. Species Acropora cytherea (Dana, 1846)
  22. Species Acropora dendrum (Bassett-Smith, 1890)
  23. Species Acropora derawanensis Wallace, 1997
  24. Species Acropora desalwii Wallace, 1994
  25. Species Acropora digitifera (Dana, 1846)
  26. Species Acropora divaricata (Dana, 1846)
  27. Species Acropora donei Veron & Wallace, 1984
  28. Species Acropora downingi Wallace, 1999
  29. Species Acropora echinata (Dana, 1846)
  30. Species Acropora elegans (Milne Edwards, 1860)
  31. Species Acropora elseyi (Brook, 1892)
  32. Species Acropora eurystoma (Klunzinger, 1879)
  33. Species Acropora exquisita Nemenzo, 1971
  34. Species Acropora fenneri Veron, 2000
  35. Species Acropora filiformis Veron, 2000
  36. Species Acropora florida (Dana, 1846)
  37. Species Acropora gemmifera (Brook, 1892)
  38. Species Acropora glauca (Brook, 1893)
  39. Species Acropora gomezi Veron, 2000
  40. Species Acropora grandis (Brook, 1892)
  41. Species Acropora granulosa (Milne Edwards, 1860)
  42. Species Acropora halmaherae Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998
  43. Species Acropora hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  44. Species Acropora hoeksemai Wallace, 1997
  45. Species Acropora horrida (Dana, 1846)
  46. Species Acropora humilis (Dana, 1846)
  47. Species Acropora hyacinthus (Dana, 1846)
  48. Species Acropora indonesia Wallace, 1997
  49. Species Acropora intermedia (Brook, 1891)
  50. Species Acropora jacquelineae Wallace, 1994
  51. Species Acropora japonica Veron, 2000
  52. Species Acropora kimbeensis Wallace, 1999
  53. Species Acropora kirstyae Veron & Wallace, 1984
  54. Species Acropora kosurini Wallace, 1994
  55. Species Acropora lamarcki Veron, 2000
  56. Species Acropora latistella (Brook, 1892)
  57. Species Acropora listeri (Brook, 1893)
  58. Species Acropora loisetteae Wallace, 1994
  59. Species Acropora lokani Wallace, 1994
  60. Species Acropora longicyathus (Milne Edwards, 1860)
  61. Species Acropora loripes (Brook, 1892)
  62. Species Acropora lutkeni Crossland, 1952
  63. Species Acropora microclados (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  64. Species Acropora microphthalma (Verrill, 1869)
  65. Species Acropora millepora (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  66. Species Acropora monticulosa (Brüggemann, 1879)
  67. Species Acropora mossambica Riegl, 1995
  68. Species Acropora multiacuta Nemenzo, 1967
  69. Species Acropora muricata (Linnaeus, 1758)
  70. Species Acropora nana (Studer, 1879)
  71. Species Acropora nasuta (Dana, 1846)
  72. Species Acropora natalensis Riegl, 1995
  73. Species Acropora palmata (Lamarck, 1816)
  74. Species Acropora palmerae Wells, 1954
  75. Species Acropora paniculata Verrill, 1902
  76. Species Acropora papillare Latypov, 1992
  77. Species Acropora pectinata Veron, 2000
  78. Species Acropora pharaonis (Milne Edwards, 1860)
  79. Species Acropora pichoni Wallace, 1999
  80. Species Acropora plumosa Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998
  81. Species Acropora polystoma (Brook, 1891)
  82. Species Acropora prolifera (Lamarck, 1816)
  83. Species Acropora proximalis Veron, 2000
  84. Species Acropora pruinosa (Brook, 1893)
  85. Species Acropora pulchra (Brook, 1891)
  86. Species Acropora retusa (Dana, 1846)
  87. Species Acropora ridzwani Ditlev, 2003
  88. Species Acropora robusta (Dana, 1846)
  89. Species Acropora rongelapensis Richards & Wallace, 2004
  90. Species Acropora roseni Wallace, 1999
  91. Species Acropora rudis (Rehberg, 1892)
  92. Species Acropora rufa Veron, 2000
  93. Species Acropora russelli Wallace, 1994
  94. Species Acropora samoensis (Brook, 1891)
  95. Species Acropora sarmentosa (Brook, 1892)
  96. Species Acropora secale (Studer, 1878)
  97. Species Acropora selago (Studer, 1879)
  98. Species Acropora simplex Wallace & Wolstenholme, 1998
  99. Species Acropora solitaryensis Veron & Wallace, 1984
  100. Species Acropora sordiensis Riegl, 1995
  101. Species Acropora speciosa (Quelch, 1886)
  102. Species Acropora spicifera (Dana, 1846)
  103. Species Acropora squarrosa (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  104. Species Acropora stoddarti Pillai & Scheer, 1976
  105. Species Acropora striata (Verrill, 1866)
  106. Species Acropora subglabra (Brook, 1891)
  107. Species Acropora suharsonoi Wallace, 1994
  108. Species Acropora sukarnoi Wallace, 1997
  109. Species Acropora tanegashimensis Veron, 1990
  110. Species Acropora tenella (Brook, 1892)
  111. Species Acropora tenuis (Dana, 1846)
  112. Species Acropora torihalimeda Wallace, 1994
  113. Species Acropora tortuosa (Dana, 1846)
  114. Species Acropora tumida (Verrill, 1866)
  115. Species Acropora turaki Wallace, 1994
  116. Species Acropora valenciennesi (Milne Edwards, 1860)
  117. Species Acropora valida (Dana, 1846)
  118. Species Acropora vaughani Wells, 1954
  119. Species Acropora verweyi Veron & Wallace, 1984
  120. Species Acropora walindii Wallace, 1999
  121. Species Acropora willisae Veron & Wallace, 1984
  122. Species Acropora yongei Veron & Wallace, 1984
  123. Species Acropora azurea Veron & Wallace, 1984 accepted as Acropora nana (Studer, 1879) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  124. Species Acropora brueggemanni (Brook, 1891) accepted as Isopora brueggemanni (Brook, 1891) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  125. Species Acropora copiosa Nemenzo, 1967 accepted as Acropora muricata (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  126. Species Acropora crateriformis (Gardiner, 1898) accepted as Isopora crateriformis (Gardiner, 1898) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  127. Species Acropora cuneata (Dana, 1846) accepted as Isopora cuneata (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  128. Species Acropora cylindrica Veron & Fenner, 2000 accepted as Isopora togianensis (Wallace, 1997) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  129. Species Acropora danai (Milne Edwards, 1860) accepted as Acropora abrotanoides (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  130. Species Acropora elizabethensis Veron, 2000 accepted as Isopora elizabethensis (Veron, 2000) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
  131. Species Acropora formosa (Dana, 1846) accepted as Acropora muricata (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  132. Species Acropora indiana Wallace, 1994 accepted as Acropora papillare Latypov, 1992 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  133. Species Acropora insignis Nemenzo, 1967 accepted as Acropora selago (Studer, 1879) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  134. Species Acropora magnifica Nemenzo, 1971 accepted as Acropora elegans (Milne Edwards, 1860) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  135. Species Acropora maryae Veron, 2000 accepted as Acropora squarrosa (Ehrenberg, 1834) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  136. Species Acropora minuta Veron, 2000 accepted as Acropora palmerae Wells, 1954 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  137. Species Acropora navini Veron, 2000 accepted as Acropora longicyathus (Milne Edwards, 1860) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  138. Species Acropora nobilis (Dana, 1846) accepted as Acropora robusta (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  139. Species Acropora ocellata (Klunzinger, 1879) accepted as Acropora humilis (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  140. Species Acropora palifera (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Isopora palifera (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  141. Species Acropora parahemprichii Veron, 2000 accepted as Acropora austera (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  142. Species Acropora parapharaonis Veron, 2000 accepted as Acropora valida (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  143. Species Acropora parilis (Quelch, 1886) accepted as Acropora horrida (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, ?)
  144. Species Acropora pectinatus Veron, 2000 accepted as Acropora pectinata Veron, 2000 (wrong spelling species name)
  145. Species Acropora pocilloporina Wallace, 1994 accepted as Acropora retusa (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  146. Species Acropora rambleri (Bassett-Smith, 1890) accepted as Acropora speciosa (Quelch, 1886) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  147. Species Acropora rosaria (Dana, 1846) accepted as Acropora loripes (Brook, 1892) (synonym ?)
  148. Species Acropora rufus Veron, 2000 accepted as Acropora rufa Veron, 2000 (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
  149. Species Acropora schmitti Wells, 1950 accepted as Acropora digitifera (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  150. Species Acropora sekiseiensis Veron, 1990 accepted as Acropora horrida (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  151. Species Acropora togianensis Wallace, 1997 accepted as Isopora togianensis (Wallace, 1997) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  152. Species Acropora torresiana Veron, 2000 accepted as Acropora samoensis (Brook, 1891) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  153. Species Acropora wallaceae Veron, 1990 accepted as Acropora samoensis (Brook, 1891) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  154. Species Acropora mirabilis (Quelch, 1886) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  155. Species Acropora teres (Verrill, 1866) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
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Oken, L. (1815-1816). Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil: Zoologie. <em>Erste Abtheilung: Fleischlose Thiere,Leipzig: C.H. Reclam & Jena: A. Schmid, [book (3rd vol part one, of 3 vols, including plates atlas of T.1, 1813].</em> xxviii + 842 pp. + xviii, 40 pls. L [copepods 180-184, 357-359, 4 plates]., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=Spo5AAAAcAAJ [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora Oken, 1815. Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205469 on 2024-04-19
Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Acropora Oken, 1815. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205469 on 2024-04-19
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1997-02-03 14:17:27Z
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2000-09-28 07:24:50Z
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Garcia, Maria
2008-10-04 18:36:46Z
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2013-09-02 08:00:17Z
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2013-09-15 20:51:10Z
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2014-04-13 21:57:04Z
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2018-12-31 09:47:43Z
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2022-05-09 11:43:50Z
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original description Oken, L. (1815-1816). Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte. Dritter Theil: Zoologie. <em>Erste Abtheilung: Fleischlose Thiere,Leipzig: C.H. Reclam & Jena: A. Schmid, [book (3rd vol part one, of 3 vols, including plates atlas of T.1, 1813].</em> xxviii + 842 pp. + xviii, 40 pls. L [copepods 180-184, 357-359, 4 plates]., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=Spo5AAAAcAAJ [details]  OpenAccess publication 

basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em>  [details]   

additional source Riegl, B. (1995). A revision of the hard coral genus Acropora Oken, 1815 (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) in south-east Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 113: 249-288 [details]   

additional source Dawson EW. (1992). The Coelenterata of the New Zealand region: a handlist for curators, students and ecologists. <em>Occasional papers of the Hutton Foundation, New Zealand.</em> 1: 1-68.
page(s): 47 [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 Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137.
page(s): 124, 129 [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 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.
page(s): 383, 385, 387, 389, 400 [details]   

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Rose Atoll coral data compiled from US Fish and Wildlife Service 1994, Townsend Cromwell 2002, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 10]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [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): 30 [details]   

additional source Reimer, J. D.; Takishita, K.; Ono, S.; Maruyama, T.; Tsukahara, J. (2006). Latitudinal and intracolony ITS-rDNA sequence variation in the symbiotic dinoflagellate genus Symbiodinium (Dinophyceae) in Zoanthus sansibaricus (Anthozoa:Hexacorallia). Phycological Research, 54, 122-132
page(s): 125 [details]   

additional source Kenyon, J. (2008). Acropora (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) reproductive synchrony and spawning phenology in the Northern Line Islands, central Pacific, as inferred from size classes of developing oocytes. Pacific Science, 62(4): 569-578
page(s): 571, 572, 573, 575, 576 [details]   

additional source Reimer, J. D.; Takishita, K.; Ono, S.; Maruyama, T. (2007). Diversity and evolution in the zoanthid genus Palythoa (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia) based on nuclear ITS-rDNA. Coral Reefs, 26, 399-410
page(s): 405 [details]   

additional source Grigg, R. W. (1981). Acropora in Hawaii. Part 2. Zoogeography. Pacific Science, 35(1): 15-24
page(s): 15 [details]   

additional source Tkachenko, K. S.; Wu, B. J.; Fang, L. S.; Fan, T. Y. (2007). Dynamics of a coral reef community after mass mortality of branching Acropora corals and an outbreak of anemones. Marine Biology, 151, 185-194
page(s): 186 [details]   

additional source Santodomingo N, Wallace CC, Johnson KG. (2015). Fossils reveal a high diversity of the staghorn coral genera Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Neogene of Indonesia. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 175: 677-763., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12295 [details]   

additional source Wallace CC, Bosellini FR. (2015). Acropora (Scleractinia) from the Oligocene and Miocene of Europe: species longevity, origination and turnover following the Eocene�Oligocene transition. <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 13(6): 447-469., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2014.930525 [details]   

additional source Wallace CC. (2008). New species and records from the Eocene of England and France support early diversification of the coral genus Acropora. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 82(2): 313-328., available online at https://doi.org/10.1666/06-091.1 [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): 26, 63 [details]   

status source ICZN. (1963). Opinion 674: Acropora Oken,1815 (Anthozoa, Madreporaria): validated under the plenary powers. <em>Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature.</em> 20: 329-330. [details]   

status source Boschma H (1961) Acropora Oken, 1815 (Anthozoa, Madreporaria); proposed validation under the plenary powers. Z.N.(S.) 1036. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 18: 334-335. [details]   
 
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