Chinese Register of Marine Species - Millepora exaesa Forsskål, 1775

Chinese
Register of
Marine Species
(ChaRMS)

ChaRMS taxon details

Millepora exaesa Forsskål, 1775

AphiaID

210728 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:210728)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Millepora Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Millepora exaesa Forsskål, 1775

Synonymised names

Millepora tuberosa Boschma, 1966 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

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

Original description

Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 138 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Schuchert, P.; Choong, H.; Galea, H.; Hoeksema, B.; Lindsay, D.; Manko, M.; Pica, D. (2025). World Hydrozoa Database. Millepora exaesa Forsskål, 1775. Accessed through: Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2025) Chinese Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210728 on 2026-07-05

Regional species database citation

Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Millepora exaesa Forsskål, 1775. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=210728 on 2026-07-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-10-13 09:05:27Z

created

Fondo, Esther

2000-09-28 07:24:50Z

changed

Garcia, Maria

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

changed

van der Land, Jacob

2011-04-15 06:55:16Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

2013-07-16 06:14:24Z

changed

Schuchert, Peter

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original description Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 138 [details]

original description (of Millepora tuberosa Boschma, 1966) Boschma H. (1966). On a new species of Millepora from Mauritius, with notes on the specific characters of Millepora exaesa. Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen - Amsterdam, Series C. 69 (4): 409-419, pls. 1-3. [details] Available for editors

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record Faure, G. (1977). Annotated checklist of the corals in the Mascarene Archipelago, Indian Ocean. Atoll Research Bulletin. 203: 1-26., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.203.1 [details] Available for editors

additional source Boschma, H. (1948). The species problem in Millepora. Zoologische Verhandelingen, Leiden. 1: 1-115, pls. 1-15.
page(s): 28 [details] Available for editors

additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 260(I): 385-486., available online at https://doi.org/10.3133/pp260i
page(s): 395, 396, 475, pl. 183 [details]

additional source Tkachenko, K. S.; Wu, B. J.; Fang, L. S.; Fan, T. Y. (2007). Dynamics of a coral reef community after mass mortality of branching Acropora corals and an outbreak of anemones. Marine Biology, 151, 185-194
page(s): 187 [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D. & J. van der Land. (2000-2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source 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]

additional source Faustino LA. (1927). Recent Madreporaria of the Philippine Islands. Bureau of Science Manila Monograph. 22: 1-310, pls. 1-100.
page(s): 42, 302 [details]

redescription Razak, T.B., Hoeksema B.W., 2003. The hydrocoral genus Millepora (Hydrozoa: Capitata: Milleporidae) in Indonesia. Zool. Verh. Leiden 345 : 313-336.
page(s): 328 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Millepora tuberosa Boschma, 1966)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Millepora exaesa)
To GenBank (280 nucleotides; 133 proteins) (from synonym Millepora tuberosa Boschma, 1966)
To GenBank (280 nucleotides; 133 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (4 records)
To ITIS