WoRMS taxon details
Isophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
204354 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204354)
accepted
Genus
Oulophyllia spinosa Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (type by subsequent designation)
Isophyllastraea Matthai, 1928 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (misspelling)
Isophyllastrea Matthai, 1928 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Mussa (Isophyllia) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Symphyllia (Isophyllia) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 · unaccepted > superseded combination
- Species Isophyllia rigida (Dana, 1846)
- Species Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786)
- Species Isophyllia aglae (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia aspera (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia australis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) accepted as Homophyllia australis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Isophyllia conferta (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia cylindrica (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia dipsacea Pourtalès, 1871 accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia dipsacea (Dana, 1846) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia erythracea Klunzinger, 1879 accepted as Lobophyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879) (unaccepted > superseded combination, misspelling)
- Species Isophyllia erythraea Klunzinger, 1879 accepted as Lobophyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
- Species Isophyllia fragilis (Dana, 1846) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia guadalupensis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia helianthus (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia knoxi (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia marginata (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia multiflora Verrill, 1901 accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia multilamella Pourtalès, 1871 accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia multilamella (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia spinosa (Edwards & Haime, 1849) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia strigosa (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Isophyllia verrucosa (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1860) accepted as Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1851). Monographie des polypiers fossiles des terrains palaeozoïques, précédée d'un tableau général de la classification des polypes. <em>Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Archives.</em> 5: 1–502, 20 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25098869 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Isophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204354 on 2025-04-25
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Nomenclature
original description
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1851). Monographie des polypiers fossiles des terrains palaeozoïques, précédée d'un tableau général de la classification des polypes. <em>Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Archives.</em> 5: 1–502, 20 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25098869 [details]
original description (of Isophyllastrea Matthai, 1928) Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. <em>Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Isophyllastraea Matthai, 1928) Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. <em>Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors [request]
basis of record 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]
original description (of Isophyllastrea Matthai, 1928) Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. <em>Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Isophyllastraea Matthai, 1928) Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. <em>Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record 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
Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. <em>Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403.
page(s): 402 [details]
additional source Laborel J. (1967). A revised list of Brazilian scleractinian corals and description of a new species. <em>Postilla Yale Peabody Museum.</em> 107: 1-14.
page(s): 11 [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details]
additional source Matthai G (1924) Report on the madreporarian corals in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 8: 1-59.
page(s): 33 [details]
additional source Budd AF, Woodell JD, Huang D, Klaus JS. (2019). Evolution of the Caribbean subfamily Mussinae (Anthozoa: Scleractinia: Faviidae): transitions between solitary and colonial forms. <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 17(18): 1581-1616., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1541932 [details]
[request]additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403.
page(s): 402 [details]
additional source Laborel J. (1967). A revised list of Brazilian scleractinian corals and description of a new species. <em>Postilla Yale Peabody Museum.</em> 107: 1-14.
page(s): 11 [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details]
additional source Matthai G (1924) Report on the madreporarian corals in the collection of the Indian Museum, Calcutta. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 8: 1-59.
page(s): 33 [details]
additional source Budd AF, Woodell JD, Huang D, Klaus JS. (2019). Evolution of the Caribbean subfamily Mussinae (Anthozoa: Scleractinia: Faviidae): transitions between solitary and colonial forms. <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 17(18): 1581-1616., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1541932 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | sinuous cactus coralrough star coral [from synonym]polygonal coral [from synonym]pineapple coral [from synonym]cactus coralbrain coral | [details] |
