African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Acropora retusa (Dana, 1846)

AfReMaS taxon details

Acropora retusa (Dana, 1846)

AphiaID

430653 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:430653)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Acropora Oken, 1815

Original name

Madrepora retusa Dana, 1846

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Dana, J.D. (1846 - 1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora retusa (Dana, 1846). 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=430653 on 2026-10-09

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 retusa (Dana, 1846). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430653 on 2026-10-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-11-18 07:59:51Z

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2013-09-08 13:36:39Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

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original description (of ) Dana, J.D. (1846 - 1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]

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

additional source George, R.M.; Sukumaran, S. (2007). A systematic appraisal of hard corals (Family Acroporidae) from the Gulf of Mannar Biosphere Reserve, south-east India. CMFRI Bulletin. 50: 1-118. [details] Available for editors

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Rose Atoll coral data compiled from US Fish and Wildlife Service 1994, Townsend Cromwell 2002, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 10]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details]

additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. Zootaxa. 1441: 21–33., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1441.1.2
page(s): 25 [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): 322 [details]

additional source Verrill AE. (1902). Notes on corals of the genus Acropora (Madrepora Lam.) with new descriptions and figures of types, and of several new species. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences. 11: 207-266, pls. 36, 36A-F.
page(s): 218 [details]

additional source Wallace CC, Done BJ, Muir PR (2012) Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 57: 1-255., available online at https://doi.org/10.17082/j:2204-1478-56-2.2013-42 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acropora retusa)
To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (4 records)