African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Dipsastraea rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)

WoRMS taxon details

Dipsastraea rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)

AphiaID

758237 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:758237)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Dipsastraea Blainville, 1830

Original name

Astraea rotumana Gardiner, 1899

Synonymised names

Astraea rotumana Gardiner, 1899 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)

Astrea rotumana (Gardiner, 1899) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Favites rotumana (Gardiner, 1899) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

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

Original description

(of Astraea rotumana Gardiner, 1899) Gardiner JS (1899) On the astraeid corals collected by the author in the South Pacific. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899: 734-764. [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Fijian Exclusive Economic Zone

type locality contained in Fijian Exclusive Economic Zone [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Dipsastraea rotumana (Gardiner, 1899). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758237 on 2025-04-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-03-16 01:08:52Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-07-20 08:47:41Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

[taxonomic tree]

Nomenclature

original description (of Astraea rotumana Gardiner, 1899) Gardiner JS (1899) On the astraeid corals collected by the author in the South Pacific. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899: 734-764. [details]

new combination reference Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details]

Other

additional source 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]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Nontype (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) HLD X2: 154-7, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) IGPS 47849, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) IGPS 48695, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) IGPS 48749, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) IGPS 48779, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) IGPS 49608, geounit Northern Mariana Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) IGPS 56633, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) MTQ G56521, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) MTQ G56551, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) WAM 476-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Unknown type (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) MTQ G58470 [details]

Unknown type (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) MTQ G58471, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Unknown type (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) MTQ G61495-97 [details]

Unknown type (of Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899)) MTQ G61498 [details]

From editor or global species database

Biology zooxanthellate [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	knob coral [from synonym]	[details]
Japanese	ロツマキクメイシ	[details]

To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) (from synonym Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899))
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dipsastraea rotumana)
To GenBank (45 nucleotides; 47 proteins) (from synonym Astraea rotumana Gardiner, 1899)
To GenBank (45 nucleotides; 47 proteins)
To GenBank (45 nucleotides; 47 proteins) (from synonym Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899))
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (11 records) (from synonym Favia rotumana (Gardiner, 1899))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (33 records)