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

WoRMS taxon details

Lobophyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879)

AphiaID

888142 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:888142)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Lobophyllia de Blainville, 1830

Original name

Isophyllia erythraea Klunzinger, 1879

Synonymised names

Acanthastrea erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Isophyllia erythracea Klunzinger, 1879 · unaccepted > superseded combination (misspelling)

Isophyllia erythraea Klunzinger, 1879 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)

Mussa (Isophyllia) erythraea Klunzinger, 1879 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Symphyllia (Isophyllia) erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Symphyllia erythracea (Klunzinger, 1879) · unaccepted > superseded combination (misspelling)

Symphyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879) · unaccepted > superseded combination

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. Lobophyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888142 on 2025-04-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-10-16 10:22:57Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-07-29 15:02:22Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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Nomenclature

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]

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). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 178(3): 436-481., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12391 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Nontype (of Symphyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879)) NMSR 8611, geounit Tanzanian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Symphyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879)) NMSR 8923, geounit Sudanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

From editor or global species database

Biology zooxanthellate [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	sinuous cup coral [from synonym]	[details]

To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) (from synonym Symphyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Acanthastrea erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Symphyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Lobophyllia erythraea)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 8 proteins) (from synonym Symphyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879))
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 8 proteins) (from synonym Isophyllia erythraea Klunzinger, 1879)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)