Scleractinia taxon details
Guembelastraea Cuif, 1976 †
1439862 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1439862)
accepted
Genus
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Cuif, J.-P. (1976). Recherches sur les Madreporaires du Trias IV. Formes cerio-meandroides et thamnasteroides du Trias des Alpes et du Taurus sudanatolien. <em>Sciences de la Terre.</em> 53, 65-195. [details]
Description Morphology and microstructure of the type species were described in detail by Cuif 1975:102, and 1976:105.
Status Synonymy: Isastrea Milne Edwards et Haime, 1851.
Description Morphology and microstructure of the type species were described in detail by Cuif 1975:102, and 1976:105. [details]
Status Synonymy: Isastrea Milne Edwards et Haime, 1851.
Status Synonymy: Isastrea Milne Edwards et Haime, 1851. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Guembelastraea Cuif, 1976 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1439862 on 2026-07-05
Date
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original description
Cuif, J.-P. (1976). Recherches sur les Madreporaires du Trias IV. Formes cerio-meandroides et thamnasteroides du Trias des Alpes et du Taurus sudanatolien. <em>Sciences de la Terre.</em> 53, 65-195. [details]
basis of record Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2017). Early Jurassic corals with dominating solitary growth forms from the Kasamurg Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 26 (1): 124-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.001 [details]
basis of record Melnikova GK, Roniewicz E. (2017). Early Jurassic corals with dominating solitary growth forms from the Kasamurg Mountains, Central Asia. <em>Palaeoworld.</em> 26 (1): 124-148., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2016.01.001 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Comparison Comparisons between types of the Cuif genera Guembelastraea, Stuoresia, and Andrazella are gived in Cuif 1976:107-108. [details]Description Morphology and microstructure of the type species were described in detail by Cuif 1975:102, and 1976:105. [details]
Diagnosis Cerioid. Radial elements built of a monolinear series of trabeculae vertical at peripheral edge and inclined towards corallite center. Lateral micromorphology in the form of concave pennulae with margin directed upwards. Wall septothecal made of peripheral septal borders. Increase by division of the corallite by a wall made at the center. [details]
Remark Three species are known, in this number two Carnian and one species from the Early Norian. [details]
Status Synonymy: Isastrea Milne Edwards et Haime, 1851. [details]
