African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Prionastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

AfReMaS name details

Prionastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

AphiaID

204801 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204801)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Favites Link, 1807

Rank

Genus

Parent

Merulinidae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857

Original name

Prionastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

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Species Prionastraea rodericana Brüggemann, 1879 accepted as Favites rodericana (Brüggemann, 1879) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Prionastraea scabra Brüggemann, 1879 accepted as Favites scabra (Brüggemann, 1879) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) 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]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Prionastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. 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=204801 on 2026-05-14

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. Prionastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204801 on 2026-05-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

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Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-27 07:06:07Z

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Martinez, Olga

2014-06-18 18:03:29Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2014-06-19 16:37:24Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2018-08-16 19:12:21Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2020-08-18 07:32:25Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2022-06-12 11:08:12Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2022-11-25 10:16:10Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

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Sources (4)

original description (of ) 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 Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]

additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]

source of synonymy Huang D, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Budd AF (2014) Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12140 [details] Available for editors