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WoRMS taxon detailsLeptastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
 204278 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204278)
accepted
Genus
Leptastrea roissyana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) (type by subsequent designation)
Baryastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Baryastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Leptastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Orbicella (Leptastraea) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Orbicella (Leptastrea) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine,
Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197. [details]
Description Colonies are massive, usually flat or dome-shaped. Corallites are subcerioid to plocoid. Costae are poorly developed or...
Description Colonies are massive, usually flat or dome-shaped. Corallites are subcerioid to plocoid. Costae are poorly developed or absent. Columellae consist of vertical pinnules. Septa have inward-projecting teeth. Polyps are usually extended only at night (except L. pruinosa) (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Leptastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204278 on 2025-04-21
Date action by 2006-09-13 06:47:38Z changed Martinez, Olga
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197. [details] original description (of Baryastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Note sur la classification de la deuxième tribu de la famille des Astréides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 27: 490–497., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.29692 [details] basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details] Othercontext source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [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 Matthai G. (1914). A revision of the recent colonial Astraeidae possessing distinct corallites. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd Series Zoology.</em> 17(1): 1-140, pls. 1-38. [details] additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors  [request]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): 30, 113 [details] additional source Arrigoni R, Berumen ML, Mariappan KG, Beck PSA, Hulver AM, Montano S, Pichon M, Strona G, Terraneo TI, Benzoni F. (2020). Towards a rigorous species delimitation framework for scleractinian corals based on RAD sequencing: the case study of Leptastrea from the Indo-Pacific. <em>Coral Reefs.</em> 39 (4): 1001–1025., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01924-8 [details] additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details] additional source DeFelice, R.; Minton, D.; Godwin, L. S. (2002). Records of Shallow-Water Marine Invertebrates from French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with a Note on Noningenous Species: Report to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Hawaii., pp. 78. page(s): 26, 51 [details] additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype WAM 745-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Unreviewed
Description Colonies are massive, usually flat or dome-shaped. Corallites are subcerioid to plocoid. Costae are poorly developed or absent. Columellae consist of vertical pinnules. Septa have inward-projecting teeth. Polyps are usually extended only at night (except L. pruinosa) (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]Remark Type species: Leptastrea roissyana Edwards & Haime, 1848 from the "Indian Ocean" (Veron, 1986). [details] |
