Scleractinia name details
Acropora (Acropora) tenella (Brook, 1892)
1521866 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1521866)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Acropora (Acropora) Oken, 1815 accepted as Acropora Oken, 1815
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Madrepora tenella Brook, 1892) Brook G (1892) Preliminary descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10: 451-465., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939208677447 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora (Acropora) tenella (Brook, 1892). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1521866 on 2026-05-02
original description
(of Madrepora tenella Brook, 1892) Brook G (1892) Preliminary descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10: 451-465., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939208677447 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
new combination reference Wallace CC. (1999). Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. CSIRO, Collingwood (Australia). pp i-xvii, 1-421. [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
new combination reference Wallace CC. (1999). Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. CSIRO, Collingwood (Australia). pp i-xvii, 1-421. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality