African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Symphyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879)

AfReMaS name details

Symphyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879)

AphiaID

207397 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207397)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Lobophyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879)

Rank

Species

Parent

Symphyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 accepted as Lobophyllia de Blainville, 1830

Original name

Isophyllia erythraea Klunzinger, 1879

Environment

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

Original description

(of Isophyllia erythraea Klunzinger, 1879) Klunzinger CB. (1879). Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres, 3. Theil: Die Steinkorallen. Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Asteraeaceen und Fungiaceen. 1-100, pls. 1-10. Gutmann, Berlin. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Symphyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879). 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://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207397 on 2026-09-01

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. Symphyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207397 on 2026-09-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-06-02 12:05:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

1998-06-04 15:30:02Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

changed

van der Land, Jacob

2014-05-30 16:29:19Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2016-10-16 10:22:57Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-07-29 15:02:22Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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original description (of Isophyllia erythraea Klunzinger, 1879) Klunzinger CB. (1879). Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres, 3. Theil: Die Steinkorallen. Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Asteraeaceen und Fungiaceen. 1-100, pls. 1-10. Gutmann, Berlin. [details]

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

basis of record Sheppard, C.R.C. (1998). Corals of the Indian Ocean: a taxonomic and distribution database for coral reef ecologists [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): 35 [details] Available for editors

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 Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113
page(s): 63, 100, 111 [details]

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

additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume III: Families Mussidae, Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae, Poritidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 3, pp. 490.
page(s): 54-55 [details]

new combination reference Huang D, Arrigoni R, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Stolarski J, Chou LM, Budd AF. (2016). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 178(3): 436-481., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12391 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To ITIS