African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Blastomussa omanensis (Sheppard & Sheppard, 1991)

AfReMaS taxon details

Blastomussa omanensis (Sheppard & Sheppard, 1991)

AphiaID

766076 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:766076)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Blastomussa Wells, 1968

Original name

Parasimplastrea omanensis Sheppard & Sheppard, 1991

Synonymised names

Parasimplastrea omanensis Sheppard & Sheppard, 1991 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Parasimplastrea omanensis Sheppard & Sheppard, 1991) Sheppard CRC, Sheppard ALS. (1991). Corals and coral communities of Saudi Arabia. <em>Fauna of Saudi Arabia.</em> 12: 1-170. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Blastomussa omanensis (Sheppard & Sheppard, 1991). 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://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=766076 on 2026-09-03

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. Blastomussa omanensis (Sheppard & Sheppard, 1991). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=766076 on 2026-09-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-06-24 09:27:33Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-06-22 11:26:26Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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original description (of Parasimplastrea omanensis Sheppard & Sheppard, 1991) Sheppard CRC, Sheppard ALS. (1991). Corals and coral communities of Saudi Arabia. <em>Fauna of Saudi Arabia.</em> 12: 1-170. [details]

basis of record Benzoni F, Arrigoni R, Waheed Z, Stefani F, Hoeksema BW (2014) Phylogenetic relationships and revision of the genus Blastomussa (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) with description of a new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62: 358-378. [details] Available for editors

Definitions

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Blastomussa omanensis)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Parasimplastrea omanensis Sheppard & Sheppard, 1991)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (3 records) (from synonym Parasimplastrea omanensis Sheppard & Sheppard, 1991)