African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Acropora rosaria (Dana, 1846)

WoRMS name details

Acropora rosaria (Dana, 1846)

AphiaID

207029 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207029)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym ?)

Accepted Name

Acropora loripes (Brook, 1892)

Rank

Species

Parent

Acropora Oken, 1815

Original name

Madrepora rosaria Dana, 1846

Direct children (4)

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Forma Acropora rosaria f. diffusa (Brook, 1893) accepted as Acropora loripes (Brook, 1892) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Forma Acropora rosaria f. dumosa (Brook, 1893) accepted as Acropora loripes (Brook, 1892) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Forma Acropora rosaria f. pygmaea (Brook, 1893) accepted as Acropora loripes (Brook, 1892) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Forma Acropora rosaria f. rosaria (Dana, 1846) accepted as Acropora loripes (Brook, 1892) (Synonymy ?)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Madrepora rosaria Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora rosaria (Dana, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207029 on 2024-12-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

1998-03-30 07:54:21Z

changed

Fondo, Esther

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

changed

van der Land, Jacob

2014-07-25 06:54:44Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-09-28 11:05:38Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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original description (of Madrepora rosaria Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]

basis of record Wijsman-Best M, Faure G, Pichon M. (1980). Contribution to the knowledge of the stony corals from the Seychelles and Eastern Africa. Revue Zoologique Africaine. 3: 600-627, pls. 9-`12. [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. Atoll Research Bulletin. 459: 13-46.
page(s): 16 [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 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 Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Veron JEN. (2002). New species described in Corals of the World. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series. 11: 1-209.
page(s): 61 [details]

additional source Nemenzo, F. (1967). Systematic studies on Philippine shallow-water scleractinians. VI Suborder Astrocoeniina (Montipora and Acropora). (Part I - Text; Part II - Plates). Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines. 20: 1-141, 143-223.
page(s): 4, 50, 70-71 [details]

additional source Crossland C (1952) Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Scientific Report Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 VI(3): 85-257.
page(s): 94, 100 [details]

additional source Verrill AE. (1902). Notes on corals of the genus Acropora (Madrepora Lam.) with new descriptions and figures of types, and of several new species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 11: 207-266, pls. 36, 36A-F.
page(s): 218 [details]

additional source Boshoff, P.H. (1981). An annotated checklist of Southern Africa Scleractinia. Oceanographic Research Institute Investigational Report, Durban. 49: 1-45.
page(s): 13 [details]

additional source Wallace CC. (1978). The coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae) in the central and southern Great Barrier Reef Province. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 18(2): 273-319, pls. 43-103. [details]

additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume I: Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 1, pp. 463.
page(s): 394-395 [details]

additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 260(I): 385-486.
page(s): 391, 396, 428, pl. 130 [details]

additional source Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 62, 74, 113 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Nontype MSI C-728 [details]

Nontype NMSR 9014, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Unreviewed

Biology zooxanthellate [details]

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To GenBank (47 nucleotides; 13 proteins)
To ITIS