Scleractinia taxon details
Acropora rongelapensis Richards & Wallace, 2004
288239 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:288239)
accepted
Species
Acropora (Acropora) rongelapensis Richards & Wallace, 2004 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Acropora (Acropora) rongelapensis Richards & Wallace, 2004) Richards ZT, Wallace CC. (2004). Acropora rongelapsensis sp. nov., a new species of Acropora from the Marshall Islands (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 590 (1): 1-5., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.590.1.1 [details]
Note Rongelap Atoll Lagoon, Marshall Islands
From editor or global species database
Type locality Rongelap Atoll Lagoon, Marshall Islands [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2021). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora rongelapensis Richards & Wallace, 2004. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288239 on 2026-05-16
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(of Acropora (Acropora) rongelapensis Richards & Wallace, 2004) Richards ZT, Wallace CC. (2004). Acropora rongelapsensis sp. nov., a new species of Acropora from the Marshall Islands (Scleractinia: Astrocoeniina: Acroporidae). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 590 (1): 1-5., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.590.1.1 [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Wallace CC, Done BJ, Muir PR (2012) Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 57: 1-255., available online at https://doi.org/10.17082/j:2204-1478-56-2.2013-42 [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Wallace CC, Done BJ, Muir PR (2012) Revision and catalogue of worldwide staghorn corals Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Museum of Tropical Queensland. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum – Nature 57: 1-255., available online at https://doi.org/10.17082/j:2204-1478-56-2.2013-42 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
