African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Astreopora gracilis Bernard, 1896

Scleractinia taxon details

Astreopora gracilis Bernard, 1896

AphiaID

207124 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207124)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Astreopora Blainville, 1830

Original name

Astreopora gracilis Bernard, 1896

Synonymised names

Astraeopora gracilis (Bernard, 1896) · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

Astreopora tayamai Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (misspelling)

Astreopora tayami Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

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

Original description

Bernard H (1896). The genus Turbinaria, The genus Astraeopora. Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History) 2: 1-106, pls. 1-33. [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Solomon Islands Exclusive Economic Zone

type locality contained in Solomon Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

, Note Solomon Islands (Veron, 1986).

Unreviewed

Type locality Solomon Islands (Veron, 1986). [details]

Descriptive notes

Description Colonies are hemispherical with irregular corallites and a smooth coenosteum. Corallites are immersed to conical an usually...

Description Colonies are hemispherical with irregular corallites and a smooth coenosteum. Corallites are immersed to conical an usually face different directions. Colour: pale cream or brown. Abundance: Rare. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Astreopora gracilis Bernard, 1896. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207124 on 2025-04-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-06-02 12:05:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-07-18 15:57:33Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

changed

van der Land, Jacob

2014-03-18 08:04:27Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-10 16:41:32Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

[taxonomic tree]

original description Bernard H (1896). The genus Turbinaria, The genus Astraeopora. Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History) 2: 1-106, pls. 1-33. [details]

original description (of Astreopora tayami Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941) Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1941). Recent reef-building corals from Japan and the South Sea Islands under the Japanese mandate. II. The Science reports of the Tôhoku, Imperial University, Sendai, 2nd Series (Geologie). Special Volume 2: 67-91, pls. 60-104. [details]

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers. [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. Atoll Research Bulletin. 459: 13-46.
page(s): 16 [details]

additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. Micronesica. 35-36: 121-137.
page(s): 129 [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia. [details]

additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1941). Recent reef-building corals from Japan and the South Sea Islands under the Japanese mandate. II. The Science reports of the Tôhoku, Imperial University, Sendai, 2nd Series (Geologie). Special Volume 2: 67-91, pls. 60-104.
page(s): 83 [details]

additional source Scheer G, Pillai CSG. (1974). Report on Scleractinia from the Nicobar Islands. Zoologica, Stuttgart. 42(122): 1-75.
page(s): 26, 74 [details]

additional source Pillai CSG, Scheer G (1976) Report on the stony corals from the Maldive Archipelago. Results of the Xarifa Expedition 1957/58. Zoologica, Stuttgart 43 (126): 1-83, pls. 1-32. [details]

additional source Veron JEN, Wallace CC (1984) Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part V. Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series 6: 1–485. [details]

additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. Zootaxa. 1441: 21–33.
page(s): 29 [details]

additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. Records Western Australian Museum Supplement. 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555
page(s): 27, 63 [details]

additional source Pillai CSG. (1972). Stony corals of the seas around India. Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Corals and Coral Reefs, 1969. Marine Biological Association of India Symposium. 5: 191-216.
page(s): 201 [details]

additional source Randall RH, Myers RF. (1983). The corals. Guide to the Coastal Resources of Guam: Vol. 2. University of Guam Press, Guam, pp. 128. [details]

additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume I: Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 1, pp. 463.
page(s): 444 [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 Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 260(I): 385-486.
page(s): 391, 432 [details]