WoRMS name details
Parastraea Felix, 1903 †
1581591 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1581591)
unaccepted > junior homonym
Genus
Parastraea grandiflora Reuss, 1854 † accepted as Pseudofavia grandiflora (Reuss, 1854) † (type by monotypy)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Not documented
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Parastraea Felix, 1903 †. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1581591 on 2024-07-26
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basis of record
Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Remark When Reuss (1854) created the species Parastraea grandiflora, he made clear that he was referring to the genus Parastraea Milne Edwards and Haime, 1848. Felix (1903, p. 181) was the first revisor who realized that the material by Reuss differed from the genus by Milne Edwards and Haime but he kept the genus name as Parastraea Reuss because, at that time, Milne Edwards himself had grouped their Parastraea as a junior synonym with Favia. However, regardless of whether or not the senior Parastraea is an objective or subjective junior synonym of another genus, it remains a valid genus name which has priority over any subsequent taxon with the same name. In providing a discussion with clearly establishing a new genus, Felix (1903, p.181) became the author of the new taxon that is Parastraea Felix (with Parastraea grandiflora Reuss as its type species), which at the same time became the junior homonym of Parastraea Milne Edwards and Haime. Later, Oppenheim (1930) used the holotype the type species of Parastraea Felix in order to create the genus Pseudofavia Oppenheim, 1930. [details]