Scleractinia name details
Astraea tenuis Duncan, 1863 †
1289964 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1289964)
unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Species
Astraea Lamarck, 1801 accepted as Astrea Lamarck, 1801
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Duncan PM. (1863). On the fossil corals of the West Indian Islands - Part I. <em>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 19: 406-458, pls. 13-16., available online at https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.jgs.1863.019.01-02.40 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Astraea tenuis Duncan, 1863 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1289964 on 2026-05-10
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Duncan PM. (1863). On the fossil corals of the West Indian Islands - Part I. <em>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 19: 406-458, pls. 13-16., available online at https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.jgs.1863.019.01-02.40 [details]
additional source Flórez P, Zapata-Ramírez P, Klaus JS. (2019). Early Miocene shallow-water corals from La Guajira, Colombia: part I, Acroporidae–Montastraeidae. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 93(1): 1-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2018.45 [details]
new combination reference Vaughan, T.W. (1919). Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the Canal Zone, Panama, and geologically related areas in Central America and the West Indies. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico: with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and recent coral reefs. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 103: 189-524, pls. 68-152., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.15815 [details]
additional source Flórez P, Zapata-Ramírez P, Klaus JS. (2019). Early Miocene shallow-water corals from La Guajira, Colombia: part I, Acroporidae–Montastraeidae. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 93(1): 1-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2018.45 [details]
new combination reference Vaughan, T.W. (1919). Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the Canal Zone, Panama, and geologically related areas in Central America and the West Indies. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico: with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and recent coral reefs. <em>Bulletin of the United States National Museum.</em> 103: 189-524, pls. 68-152., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.15815 [details]