Scleractinia taxon details
Leptastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
204278 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204278)
accepted
Genus
Leptastrea roissyana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) (type by subsequent designation)
Baryastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Baryastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Leptastraea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Orbicella (Leptastraea) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Orbicella (Leptastrea) Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Leptastrea aequalis Veron, 2000
- Species Leptastrea anomala Michelotti, 1871 †
- Species Leptastrea bewickensis Veron, Pichon & Best, 1977
- Species Leptastrea bottae (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)
- Species Leptastrea gibbosa Benzoni & Arrigoni, 2020
- Species Leptastrea hertleini Durham, 1942 †
- Species Leptastrea inaequalis Klunzinger, 1879
- Species Leptastrea magaloni Benzoni & Arrigoni, 2020
- Species Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846)
- Species Leptastrea transversa Klunzinger, 1879
- Species Leptastrea humilis Duncan, 1889 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Leptastrea agassizi Vaughan, 1907 accepted as Cyphastrea agassizi (Vaughan, 1907) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
- Species Leptastrea ehrenbergana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, misspelling)
- Species Leptastrea ehrenbergiana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leptastrea hawaiiensis Vaughan, 1907 accepted as Leptastrea bottae (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leptastrea immersa Klunzinger, 1879 accepted as Leptastrea bottae (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leptastrea magalonae Benzoni & Arrigoni, 2020 (unaccepted > interim unpublished)
- Species Leptastrea magna Prever, 1909 † accepted as Eocolumastraea magna (Prever, 1909) † (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
- Species Leptastrea mammiformis Nemenzo, 1959 accepted as Echinopora mammiformis (Nemenzo, 1959) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
- Species Leptastrea pruinosa Crossland, 1952 accepted as Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leptastrea pulchra (Dana, 1846) accepted as Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leptastrea roissyana Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 accepted as Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leptastrea solida (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) accepted as Leptastrea bottae (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leptastrea stellulata Verrill, 1866 accepted as Leptastrea purpurea (Dana, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197. [details]
Note "Indian Ocean" (Veron, 1986)
From editor or global species database
Type locality "Indian Ocean" (Veron, 1986) [details]
Description Colonies are massive, usually flat or dome-shaped. Corallites are subcerioid to plocoid. Costae are poorly developed or...
Description Colonies are massive, usually flat or dome-shaped. Corallites are subcerioid to plocoid. Costae are poorly developed or absent. Columellae consist of vertical pinnules. Septa have inward-projecting teeth. Polyps are usually extended only at night (except L. pruinosa) (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Leptastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204278 on 2026-03-16
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Martinez, Olga
original description
Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197. [details]
original description (of Baryastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Note sur la classification de la deuxième tribu de la famille des Astréides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 27: 490–497., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.29692 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details]
additional source Matthai G. (1914). A revision of the recent colonial Astraeidae possessing distinct corallites. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd Series Zoology.</em> 17(1): 1-140, pls. 1-38., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1914.tb00590.x [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555
page(s): 30, 113 [details]
additional source Arrigoni R, Berumen ML, Mariappan KG, Beck PSA, Hulver AM, Montano S, Pichon M, Strona G, Terraneo TI, Benzoni F. (2020). Towards a rigorous species delimitation framework for scleractinian corals based on RAD sequencing: the case study of Leptastrea from the Indo-Pacific. <em>Coral Reefs.</em> 39 (4): 1001–1025., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01924-8 [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details]
additional source DeFelice, R.; Minton, D.; Godwin, L. S. (2002). Records of Shallow-Water Marine Invertebrates from French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with a Note on Noningenous Species: Report to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Hawaii., pp. 78.
page(s): 26, 51 [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
original description (of Baryastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Note sur la classification de la deuxième tribu de la famille des Astréides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 27: 490–497., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.29692 [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details]
additional source Matthai G. (1914). A revision of the recent colonial Astraeidae possessing distinct corallites. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd Series Zoology.</em> 17(1): 1-140, pls. 1-38., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1914.tb00590.x [details]
additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors
additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555
page(s): 30, 113 [details]
additional source Arrigoni R, Berumen ML, Mariappan KG, Beck PSA, Hulver AM, Montano S, Pichon M, Strona G, Terraneo TI, Benzoni F. (2020). Towards a rigorous species delimitation framework for scleractinian corals based on RAD sequencing: the case study of Leptastrea from the Indo-Pacific. <em>Coral Reefs.</em> 39 (4): 1001–1025., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-020-01924-8 [details]
additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details]
additional source DeFelice, R.; Minton, D.; Godwin, L. S. (2002). Records of Shallow-Water Marine Invertebrates from French Frigate Shoals, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands, with a Note on Noningenous Species: Report to U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. Bishop Museum. Honolulu, Hawaii., pp. 78.
page(s): 26, 51 [details]
additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Nontype WAM 745-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]Type locality "Indian Ocean" (Veron, 1986) [details]
Unreviewed
Description Colonies are massive, usually flat or dome-shaped. Corallites are subcerioid to plocoid. Costae are poorly developed or absent. Columellae consist of vertical pinnules. Septa have inward-projecting teeth. Polyps are usually extended only at night (except L. pruinosa) (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
