WoRMS name details
Astraea affinis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)
868501 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:868501)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Astraea Lamarck, 1801 accepted as Astrea Lamarck, 1801
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Parastrea affinis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197. [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Astraea affinis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=868501 on 2026-08-17
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Parastrea affinis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197. [details]
basis of record Brüggemann, F. (1879). Corals. In: Zoology of Rodriguez. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences.</em> 168: 569-579. [details]
basis of record Brüggemann, F. (1879). Corals. In: Zoology of Rodriguez. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series B, Biological Sciences.</em> 168: 569-579. [details]
Other
additional source
Gardiner JS (1899) On the astraeid corals collected by the author in the South Pacific. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1899: 734-764., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1899.tb06886.x [details]
