African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Australopsammia aurea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

AfReMaS name details

Australopsammia aurea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

AphiaID

1464211 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1464211)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Tubastraea aurea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)

Rank

Species

Parent

Australopsammia Rowlett, 2020 accepted as Tubastraea Lesson, 1830

Original name

Lobophyllia aurea Quoy & Gaimard, 1833

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1833). Zoologie IV: Zoophytes. In:Zoologie. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829 / sous le commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville. pp. 1-390. Paris, J. Tastu., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2064339 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Australopsammia aurea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1464211 on 2026-04-05

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Australopsammia aurea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1464211 on 2026-04-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2020-11-01 11:15:00Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2020-12-14 09:50:52Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2021-11-23 20:03:29Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2023-03-30 00:13:32Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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Sources (3)
Links (2)

original description (of ) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1833). Zoologie IV: Zoophytes. In:Zoologie. Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe : exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829 / sous le commandement de J. Dumont d'Urville. pp. 1-390. Paris, J. Tastu., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2064339 [details]

replacement name source Yiu SKF & Qiu J-W. (2022). Three new species of the sun coral genus Tubastraea (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) from Hong Kong, China. <em>Zoological Studies.</em> 61: 45., available online at http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/61/61-45.pdf [details]

new combination reference Rowlett J. (2020). Indo-Pacific Corals. <em>Rowlett (self-published).</em> pp. 1-809. [details]

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Australopsammia aurea)
To GenBank (77 nucleotides; 36 proteins)