Scleractinia taxon details
Astrocoenia portoricensis Vaughan, 1919 †
1347247 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1347247)
accepted
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
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]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Astrocoenia portoricensis Vaughan, 1919 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1347247 on 2026-06-02
original description
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]
additional source Pijpers PJ. (1933). Geology and paleontology of Bonaire (D.W.I.). <em>Utrecht University Geografisch Geologische Mededelingen Phys.-Geol. Reeks.</em> 8: 1-103, pls. 1-2. [details]
additional source Frost SH, Langenheim RL Jr. (1974). Scleractinian corals. In: Cenozoic reef biofacies. Tertiary larger Foraminifera and scleractinian corals from Chipas, Mexico. <em>Northern Illinois University Press, Chicago.</em> pp 173-314. [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]
additional source Pijpers PJ. (1933). Geology and paleontology of Bonaire (D.W.I.). <em>Utrecht University Geografisch Geologische Mededelingen Phys.-Geol. Reeks.</em> 8: 1-103, pls. 1-2. [details]
additional source Frost SH, Langenheim RL Jr. (1974). Scleractinian corals. In: Cenozoic reef biofacies. Tertiary larger Foraminifera and scleractinian corals from Chipas, Mexico. <em>Northern Illinois University Press, Chicago.</em> pp 173-314. [details]
