African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Acropora exilis (Brook, 1892)

WoRMS name details

Acropora exilis (Brook, 1892)

AphiaID

207098 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207098)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted Name

Acropora elseyi (Brook, 1892)

Rank

Species

Parent

Acropora Oken, 1815

Original name

Madrepora exilis Brook, 1892

Environment

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

Original description

(of Madrepora exilis Brook, 1892) Brook G (1892) Preliminary descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10: 451-465. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora exilis (Brook, 1892). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207098 on 2024-12-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-03 11:04:28Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2014-02-04 21:27:13Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2014-04-13 09:56:48Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-08-11 16:37:21Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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original description (of Madrepora exilis Brook, 1892) Brook G (1892) Preliminary descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10: 451-465. [details]

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [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 Crossland C (1952) Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Scientific Report Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 VI(3): 85-257.
page(s): 93, 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): 215 [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): 11 [details]

source of synonymy Sheppard CRC. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. Atoll Research Bulletin. 307: 1-32., available online at http:// https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.307.1 [details]