Scleractinia taxon details
Complexastrea d'Orbigny, 1849 †
1348207 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1348207)
accepted
Genus
Astrea burgundiae Leymerie, 1846 † (type by monotypy)
Complexastraea d'Orbigny, 1849 † · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Plastastraea Tomes, 1885 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (misspelling)
Platastraea Tomes, 1885 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Complexastrea burgundiae (Blainville, 1830) †
- Species Complexastrea carinata Roniewicz, 1960 †
- Species Complexastrea cyclops (Felix, 1891) †
- Species Complexastrea glenrosensis Wells, 1932 †
- Species Complexastrea gregaria (M'Coy, 1848) †
- Species Complexastrea hemisphaerica Geyer, 1954 †
- Species Complexastrea kachensis Gregory, 1900 †
- Species Complexastrea sobkoviensis Roniewicz, 1960 †
- Species Complexastrea thevenini (Etallon, 1859) †
- Species Complexastrea carpathica Morycowa, 1974 † accepted as Isastrea bernardiana (d'Orbigny, 1850) † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Complexastrea lobata Geyer, 1965 † accepted as Complexastraeopsis lobata (Geyer, 1965) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1849). Note sur des Polypiers fossiles. <em>Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 2e sér.</em> 1: 526-538. [details]
Description Massive astroid, plocoid to subcerioid corallum with rounded corallites. Increase through intracalicular budding with...
Status In 1849, d'Orbigny created Complexastrea based on Astrea burgundiae Leymerie 1846 non Defrance. In 1850 (p. 35-36,n°565)...
Description Massive astroid, plocoid to subcerioid corallum with rounded corallites. Increase through intracalicular budding with lamellar linkages between centers, which interrupt at later stage. Peritheca very narrow when present. Radial elements are exsert, compact, free, attenuated to bicuneiform, costo-septa with a small costal part. Radial elements differentiated size orders. Distal edge with rhomboidal equal regular teeth, inner edge rhopaloid, lateral faces with subvertical carinae, no palis. Microarchitecture montlivaltid with one fan system of trabecules corresponding to carinae. Hexameral symmetry generally not deciphered, bilateral symmetry marked by torsion of septa. Endotheca made of vesicular, cellular or tabuloid dissepiments which pass from one corallite to another , columella absent or weak parietal, synapticulae absent, wall absent to paraseptothecal. In case of an absent wall, a narrow depression occurs (astraeoid situation) [details]
Status In 1849, d'Orbigny created Complexastrea based on Astrea burgundiae Leymerie 1846 non Defrance. In 1850 (p. 35-36,n°565)...
Status In 1849, d'Orbigny created Complexastrea based on Astrea burgundiae Leymerie 1846 non Defrance. In 1850 (p. 35-36,n°565) d'Orbigny abandoned Complexastrea and Astrea burgundiae Leymerie was attributed to Confusastrea subburgundiae . But the genus is presently considered available and valid. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Complexastrea d'Orbigny, 1849 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1348207 on 2026-05-04
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Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1849). Note sur des Polypiers fossiles. <em>Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 2e sér.</em> 1: 526-538. [details]
original description (of Platastraea Tomes, 1885 †) Tomes RF. (1885). On some new or imperfectly known Madreporaria from the Great Oolite of the counties of Oxford, Gloucester and Somerset. <em>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 41: 170-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.jgs.1885.041.01-04.24 [details]
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]
additional source Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. <em>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.</em> pp 462. [details]
additional source Vasseur, R., Lathuilière, B. (2021). Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys. <em>Geodiversitas.</em> 43(22): 1187-1291., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 [details]
original description (of Platastraea Tomes, 1885 †) Tomes RF. (1885). On some new or imperfectly known Madreporaria from the Great Oolite of the counties of Oxford, Gloucester and Somerset. <em>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 41: 170-190., available online at https://doi.org/10.1144/gsl.jgs.1885.041.01-04.24 [details]
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]
additional source Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. <em>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.</em> pp 462. [details]
additional source Vasseur, R., Lathuilière, B. (2021). Pliensbachian corals from the Western Tethys. <em>Geodiversitas.</em> 43(22): 1187-1291., available online at https://doi.org/10.5252/geodiversitas2021v43a22 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Comparison The main differences with Isastrea consist in size of trabecules and corallites (bigger in Complexastrea), the higher divergence of trabecules in the septal plan that produce a costal part, more exsert septa, and locally a peritheca in Complexastrea. Complexastrea is close of other montlivaltid genera with large corallites like Complexastreopsis, Thecomeandra, Fromentellia, Phyllogyra but these genera show tendencies more or less developed toward the meandroid structure. [details]Description Massive astroid, plocoid to subcerioid corallum with rounded corallites. Increase through intracalicular budding with lamellar linkages between centers, which interrupt at later stage. Peritheca very narrow when present. Radial elements are exsert, compact, free, attenuated to bicuneiform, costo-septa with a small costal part. Radial elements differentiated size orders. Distal edge with rhomboidal equal regular teeth, inner edge rhopaloid, lateral faces with subvertical carinae, no palis. Microarchitecture montlivaltid with one fan system of trabecules corresponding to carinae. Hexameral symmetry generally not deciphered, bilateral symmetry marked by torsion of septa. Endotheca made of vesicular, cellular or tabuloid dissepiments which pass from one corallite to another , columella absent or weak parietal, synapticulae absent, wall absent to paraseptothecal. In case of an absent wall, a narrow depression occurs (astraeoid situation) [details]
Remark See Geyer 1954, Roniewicz 1960 , Morsch 1994, Lathuilière 1996a, b In the Bajocian, Lathuilière 1996 documented development of a morphogenetic series from solitary Montlivaltia morphotype to colonial, ploco-cerioid Complexastrea morphotype. In the Late Oxfordian – Tithonian an expansion of the astreoid Complexastrea morphotype is observed. Possibly in this morphogenetic trend emerged the evoked meandroid genera. [details]
Status In 1849, d'Orbigny created Complexastrea based on Astrea burgundiae Leymerie 1846 non Defrance. In 1850 (p. 35-36,n°565) d'Orbigny abandoned Complexastrea and Astrea burgundiae Leymerie was attributed to Confusastrea subburgundiae . But the genus is presently considered available and valid. [details]
