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Tubastraea Lesson, 1830

Tubastraea coccinea, small colony
Tubastraea coccinea, small colony

267930  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267930)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Refertina (Suborder)
  8. Dendrophylliidae (Family)
  9. Tubastraea (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Agatheliopsis Löser, 2014 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Astropsammia Verrill, 1869 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Australopsammia Rowlett, 2020 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Coenopsammia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Dendrophyllia (Coenopsammia) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pachypsammia Verrill, 1866 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (misspelling)
Pachysammia Verrill, 1866 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Placopsammia Duncan, 1876 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Tubastaea Lesson, 1830 · unaccepted (misspelling)
Tubastrea Lesson, 1830 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Tubastreae Lesson, 1830 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

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  1. Species Tubastraea aurea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
  2. Species Tubastraea chloromura Yiu & Qiu, 2022
  3. Species Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1830
  4. Species Tubastraea dendroida Yiu & Qiu, 2022
  5. Species Tubastraea diaphana (Dana, 1846)
  6. Species Tubastraea faulkneri Wells, 1982
  7. Species Tubastraea floreana Wells, 1982
  8. Species Tubastraea megacorallita Yiu, Chung & Qiu, 2021
  9. Species Tubastraea micranthus (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  10. Species Tubastraea stimpsonii (Verrill, 1866)
  11. Species Tubastraea tagusensis Wells, 1982
  12. Species Tubastraea violacea Yiu & Qiu, 2022
  13. Species Tubastraea caboverdiana Ocaña & Brito, 2015 accepted as Atlantia caboverdiana (Ocaña & Brito, 2015) (unaccepted > superseded combination, amended spelling)
  14. Species Tubastraea columnata Serra, Neves & Johnsson, 2024 (unaccepted > unavailable name, Published online-only without ZooBank registration)
  15. Species Tubastraea grandidentata Serra, Neves & Johnsson, 2024 (unaccepted > unavailable name, Published online-only without ZooBank registration)
  16. Species Tubastraea megalostoma Serra, Neves & Johnsson, 2024 (unaccepted > unavailable name, Published online-only without ZooBank registration)
  17. Species Tubastraea micrantha (Ehrenberg, 1834) accepted as Tubastraea micranthus (Ehrenberg, 1834) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
  18. Species Tubastraea pedersenii (Verrill, 1869) accepted as Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1830 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  19. Species Tubastraea ramosa Serra, Neves & Johnsson, 2024 (unaccepted > unavailable name, Published online-only without ZooBank registration)
  20. Species Tubastraea tenuilamellosa (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) accepted as Tubastraea coccinea Lesson, 1830 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  21. Species Tubastraea titjimaensis Eguchi, 1968 accepted as Cladopsammia gracilis (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, misspelling)
  22. Species Tubastraea willeyi (Gardiner, 1900) accepted as Cladopsammia willeyi (Gardiner, 1900) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  23. Species Tubastraea coccinea (Ehrenberg, 1834) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Lesson, R.P. (1830). Voyage autour du monde : exécuté par ordre du roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825, par M. L.I. Duperrey. <em>Zoologie 2,.</em> Paris, 1826-1830. (vol. 2, pt 2, 2e division, 1830)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38663489 [details] 
Depth range 0-110 m  
Depth range 0-110 m [details]

Fossil range Eocene to Recent  
Fossil range Eocene to Recent [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Tubastraea Lesson, 1830. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267930 on 2025-07-14
Date
action
by
2008-01-14 11:18:07Z
created
van der Land, Jacob
2010-08-14 14:40:15Z
changed
Cairns, Stephen
2010-09-07 13:48:11Z
changed
Cairns, Stephen
2018-08-09 16:47:36Z
changed
Hoeksema, Bert
2019-10-17 20:56:40Z
changed
Hoeksema, Bert
2022-05-15 06:23:49Z
changed
Hoeksema, Bert

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Nomenclature

original description Lesson, R.P. (1830). Voyage autour du monde : exécuté par ordre du roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, la Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824, et 1825, par M. L.I. Duperrey. <em>Zoologie 2,.</em> Paris, 1826-1830. (vol. 2, pt 2, 2e division, 1830)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38663489 [details] 

original description (of Coenopsammia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 3. Monographie des eupsammides. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 10: 65-114, pls. 5-9. [details] 

original description (of Astropsammia Verrill, 1869) Verrill, A. E. (1869). On New and imperfectly known Echinoderms and Corals. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural HIstory.</em> 12: 381-391., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9494023#page/389/mode/1up [details] 

original description (of Placopsammia Duncan, 1876) Duncan PM. (1876). Notices of some Deep-sea and Littoral Corals from the Atlantic Ocean, Caribbean, Indian, New-Zealand, Persian Gulf, and Japanese &c. Seas. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 44: 428-442, pls. 38-41., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29099627#page/524/mode/1up [details] 

original description (of Australopsammia Rowlett, 2020) Rowlett J. (2020). Indo-Pacific Corals. <em>Rowlett (self-published).</em> pp. 1-809. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Pachysammia Verrill, 1866) Verrill AE. (1866). Synopsis of the polyps and corals of the North Pacific Exploring Expedition, under Commodore C. Ringgold and Capt. John Rodgers, U.S.N., from 1853 to 1856. Collected by Dr. Wm. Stimpson, Naturalist to the Expedition. With descriptions of some additional species from the west coast of North America. Part III. Madreporaria. <em>Communications of the Essex Institute, Salem.</em> 5(3): 17-50, pls. 1-2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33204514 [details] 

original description (of Agatheliopsis Löser, 2014 †) Löser, H. (2014). Revision of the family Agatheliidae (Scleractinia; Cretaceous). <em>Neues Jahrbuch fur Geologie und Palaontologie, Abhandlungen.</em> 273 (3): 299-318. [details] 

basis of record van der Land, J. (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). , available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/ [details] 

Taxonomy

redescription Cairns, S.D. (2000). A revision of the shallow-water azooxanthellate Scleractinia of the western Atlantic. <em>Studies on the Natural History of the Caribbean Region.</em> 75: 1-231. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

redescription Cairns, S.D. (2001). A generic revision and phylogenetic analysis of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria: Scleractinia). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 615: 1-75., available online at https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00810282.615 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

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

additional source Daly, M.M., Fautin D.G., Cappola V.A., 2003. Systematics of the Hexacorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139 3: 419-437.
page(s): 424-425, 427-428 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137.
page(s): 137 [details] 

additional source Wells JW. (1936). The nomenclature and type species of some genera of recent and fossil corals. <em>American Journal of Science.</em> 31: 97-134., available online at https://ajsonline.org/article/61464 [details] 

additional source Sartoretto S, Harmelin J-G, Bachet F, Bejaoui N, Lebrun O, Zibrowius H. (2008). The alien coral <i>Oculina patagonica</i> De Angelis (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) in Algeria and Tunisia. <em>Aquatic Invasions.</em> 3 (2): 173-180., available online at http://www.aquaticinvasions.net/2008/AI_2008_3_2_Sartoretto_etal.pdf
page(s): 174 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Zibrowius, H. & M.J. Grygier. (1985). Diversity and range of scleractinian coral hosts of Ascothoracida (Crustacea: Maxillopoda). <em>Annales de l'Institut Océanographique.</em> 61(2):115-138.
page(s): 130-131, Fig. 46 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Fenner, D. P. (2005). Corals of Hawai'i. A Field Guide to the Hard, Black, and Soft Corals of Hawai'i and the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, Including Midway. <em>Mutual Publishing, Ltd., Honolulu.</em> 144 pp.
page(s): 26, 27, 83, 84, 124 [details] 

additional source Baron-Szabo, R.C. & S.D. Cairns. (2019). Chapter 14: Part F, Revised, Volume 2, Chapter 14:Systematic Descriptions of the Scleractinia Family Dendrophylliidae. <em>Treatise Online, Part F, Revised.</em> 119: 1-33. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Sheppard, C. R. C. (1985). Fringing reefs in the southern region, Jeddah to Jizan. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 37-58
page(s): 48 [details] 

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Comparison Similar to Enallopsammia, but plocoid and having some endotheca. [details]

Diagnosis Calices arranged in plocoid manner, corallites originating from a thick basal coenosteum; costae granular, epitheca absent; septa normally arranged; fossa deep, containing a spongy to trabecular columella; tissue often brightly colored; azooxanthellate. [details]

Remark This genus and family were monographed by Cairns (2001), which included a phylogenetic analysis based on morphology. Eight species, 3 of which are known as fossils. Often incorrectly written as Tubastrea. [details]

Unreviewed
Biology azooxanthellate [details]

Depth range 0-110 m [details]

Fossil range Eocene to Recent [details]
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LanguageName 
English turret coralorange tube coralorange sun polyporange sun coralorange polyp coralorange cupcoralorange cup coraldaisy cup coralbranching octopus coral  [details]
German Orange Kelchkoralle  [details]
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Australopsammia) (from synonym Australopsammia Rowlett, 2020)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tubastraea) 
To Genbank (from synonym Australopsammia Rowlett, 2020)
To Genbank (from synonym Tubastrea Lesson, 1830)
To Genbank 
To NHMUK collection (Tubastrea Lesson, 1830; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3473680) (from synonym Tubastrea Lesson, 1830)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Station Data printout) 
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Unreviewed
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