WoRMS name details
Monticularia Lamarck, 1816
763528 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:763528)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Genus
Monticularia folium Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Hydnophora exesa (Pallas, 1766) (type by original designation)
- Species Monticularia exesa (Pallas, 1766) accepted as Hydnophora exesa (Pallas, 1766) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Monticularia folium Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Hydnophora exesa (Pallas, 1766) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monticularia lobata Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Hydnophora exesa (Pallas, 1766) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monticularia meandrina Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Hydnophora exesa (Pallas, 1766) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monticularia microcona (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Hydnophora microconos (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Monticularia microconos Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Hydnophora microconos (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
- Species Monticularia microna Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Hydnophora microconos (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling)
- Species Monticularia polygonalis Blainville, 1834 accepted as Hydnophora polygonalis (Blainville, 1834) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
- Species Monticularia polygonata Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Hydnophora exesa (Pallas, 1766) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome second, 566 pp. Paris, Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Monticularia Lamarck, 1816. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=763528 on 2026-05-30
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Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1816). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome second, 566 pp. Paris, Verdière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details]
basis of record 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] Available for editors
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basis of record 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] Available for editors
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