African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Acropora rousseauii (Milne Edwards, 1860)

AfReMaS name details

Acropora rousseauii (Milne Edwards, 1860)

AphiaID

207034 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207034)

Classification

Status

uncertain > taxon inquirendum (wrong spelling)

Rank

Species

Parent

Acropora Oken, 1815

Original name

Madrepora rousseauii Milne Edwards, 1860

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2021). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora rousseauii (Milne Edwards, 1860). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207034 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. Acropora rousseauii (Milne Edwards, 1860). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207034 on 2026-05-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-09-13 07:19:12Z

changed

Garcia, Maria

2013-09-22 21:15:13Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2018-07-02 11:22:00Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2019-10-09 16:43:43Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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Sources (3)
Documented distribution (2)

original description (of ) Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]

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

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality