African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Dipsastraea wisseli (Scheer & Pillai, 1983)

Scleractinia taxon details

Dipsastraea wisseli (Scheer & Pillai, 1983)

AphiaID

818853 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:818853)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Dipsastraea Blainville, 1830

Original name

Favia wisseli Scheer & Pillai, 1983

Synonymised names

Favia wisseli Scheer & Pillai, 1983 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Favia wisseli Scheer & Pillai, 1983) Scheer, G. & Pillai, C.S.G. 1983. Report on the stony corals from the Red Sea. Zoologica, Stuttgart 45 (133): 1-198, pls. 1-41. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Dipsastraea wisseli (Scheer & Pillai, 1983). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818853 on 2025-05-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-10-03 13:58:06Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-12-31 22:47:05Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Favia wisseli Scheer & Pillai, 1983) Scheer, G. & Pillai, C.S.G. 1983. Report on the stony corals from the Red Sea. Zoologica, Stuttgart 45 (133): 1-198, pls. 1-41. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	knob coral [from synonym]	[details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Favia wisseli Scheer & Pillai, 1983)