Scleractinia taxon details
Latusastrea d'Orbigny, 1849 †
1348236 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1348236)
accepted
Genus
Explanaria alveolaris Goldfuss, 1829 † accepted as Latusastrea alveolaris (Goldfuss, 1829) † (type by monotypy)
Comalia Wells, 1932 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pleurocoenia d'Orbigny, 1849 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Latusastrea alveolaris (Goldfuss, 1829) †
- Species Latusastrea decipiens (Prever, 1909) †
- Species Latusastrea exiguis (de Fromentel, 1862) †
- Species Latusastrea fasciculata (Wells, 1932) †
- Species Latusastrea provincialis (d'Orbigny, 1850) †
- Species Latusastrea rubrolineata Löser, Stemann & Mitchell, 2009 †
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 Incrusting colony with corallites having a circular to semi-lunar outline in transverse section. The flattened side of the...
Status The position in Heterocoeniidae was proposed by Stolarski and Russo, 2001 and accepted in Kolodziej 2003, nevertheless the...
Description Incrusting colony with corallites having a circular to semi-lunar outline in transverse section. The flattened side of the corallite is on the encrusting surface, the more convex side upward. Highly bilateral septal apparatus with a cardinal septum enlarged at inner edge and some other rare much thinner septa. Cardinal septum most oftentimes growing from the flat side of the corallite. Radial elements are compact, probably free, and flexuous. Wall externally covered by very fine granulations longitudinally aligned. Endotheca not observed. No columella. Mode of increase unclear, probably intramural but also septal. Marginarium possibly present. [details]
Status The position in Heterocoeniidae was proposed by Stolarski and Russo, 2001 and accepted in Kolodziej 2003, nevertheless the...
Status The position in Heterocoeniidae was proposed by Stolarski and Russo, 2001 and accepted in Kolodziej 2003, nevertheless the proximity with Thecidiosmilia in which the marginarium is clearly present suggests that an assignation to Amphiastreidae cannot be ruled out. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Latusastrea d'Orbigny, 1849 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1348236 on 2026-06-28
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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 Comalia Wells, 1932 †) Wells JW. (1932). Corals of the Trinity Group of the Comanchean of Central Texas. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 6 (3): 225-256. [details]
original description (of Pleurocoenia d'Orbigny, 1849 †) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1849). Note sur des Polypiers fossiles. <em>Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 2e sér.</em> 1: 526-538. [details]
additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]
additional source Beauvais M. (1977). Le nouveau sous-ordre des Heterocoeniida. <em>Mémoires du Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières.</em> 89: 271-282. [details]
original description (of Comalia Wells, 1932 †) Wells JW. (1932). Corals of the Trinity Group of the Comanchean of Central Texas. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 6 (3): 225-256. [details]
original description (of Pleurocoenia d'Orbigny, 1849 †) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1849). Note sur des Polypiers fossiles. <em>Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 2e sér.</em> 1: 526-538. [details]
additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]
additional source Beauvais M. (1977). Le nouveau sous-ordre des Heterocoeniida. <em>Mémoires du Bureau de recherches géologiques et minières.</em> 89: 271-282. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Comparison Thecidiosmilia seems to be very close (congeneric ?) but more massive, less flat and incrusting. Baron-Szabo (2014) interpreted Latusastrea as a morphogenus within the Heterocoenia-Latusastrea group, Heterocoenia being more plocoid. [details]Description Incrusting colony with corallites having a circular to semi-lunar outline in transverse section. The flattened side of the corallite is on the encrusting surface, the more convex side upward. Highly bilateral septal apparatus with a cardinal septum enlarged at inner edge and some other rare much thinner septa. Cardinal septum most oftentimes growing from the flat side of the corallite. Radial elements are compact, probably free, and flexuous. Wall externally covered by very fine granulations longitudinally aligned. Endotheca not observed. No columella. Mode of increase unclear, probably intramural but also septal. Marginarium possibly present. [details]
Remark Two nominal species in Jurassic, and 6 nominal species in Cretaceous (Löser 2000). [details]
Status The position in Heterocoeniidae was proposed by Stolarski and Russo, 2001 and accepted in Kolodziej 2003, nevertheless the proximity with Thecidiosmilia in which the marginarium is clearly present suggests that an assignation to Amphiastreidae cannot be ruled out. [details]
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