Scleractinia taxon details
Dimorphastraeopsis Alloiteau, 1958 †
1439823 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1439823)
accepted
Genus
Dimorphastrea patellaris Stoliczka, 1873 † accepted as Dimorphastraeopsis patellaris (Stoliczka, 1873) † (type by original designation)
Olgastraea Eliášová, 1989 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Alloiteau J. (1958). Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar. <em>Annales Géologiques de Madagascar.</em> 25: 1-218, pls 1-38. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Dimorphastraeopsis Alloiteau, 1958 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1439823 on 2026-06-16
Date
action
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original description
Alloiteau J. (1958). Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar. <em>Annales Géologiques de Madagascar.</em> 25: 1-218, pls 1-38. [details]
original description (of Olgastraea Eliášová, 1989 †) Eliášová H. (1989). Genres nouveaux des Scléractiniaires du Crétacé de la Bohême (Tchécoslovaquie). <em>Časopis pro Mineralogii a Geologii.</em> 34(2): 113-121, pls. 1-6. [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]
original description (of Olgastraea Eliášová, 1989 †) Eliášová H. (1989). Genres nouveaux des Scléractiniaires du Crétacé de la Bohême (Tchécoslovaquie). <em>Časopis pro Mineralogii a Geologii.</em> 34(2): 113-121, pls. 1-6. [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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Colonial, massive, thamnasterioid. Gemmation circumoral, followed by intracalicinal budding. Septa coarsely granulated laterally, compact, becoming subcompact axially, dissociating into paliform lobes. Columella parietal. Endothecal dissepiments vesicular. Synapticulae very rare. Trabeculae thick. [details]
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