Scleractinia name details
Porites purpurea Gardiner, 1898
760276 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:760276)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Gardiner JS (1898) On the perforate corals collected by the author in the South Pacific. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898: 257-276, pls. 23-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb03144.x [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Porites purpurea Gardiner, 1898. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=760276 on 2026-06-06
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Gardiner JS (1898) On the perforate corals collected by the author in the South Pacific. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898: 257-276, pls. 23-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb03144.x [details]
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.42.379
page(s): 401 [details]
additional source Forsman, Z. H.; Birkeland, C. (2009). Porites randalli: a new coral species (Scleractinia, Poritidae) from American Samoa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2244: 51-59., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2244.1.2
page(s): 57 [details]
source of synonymy Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1982). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part IV. Family Poritidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 5: 1-159. [details] Available for editors
context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.42.379
page(s): 401 [details]
additional source Forsman, Z. H.; Birkeland, C. (2009). Porites randalli: a new coral species (Scleractinia, Poritidae) from American Samoa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2244: 51-59., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2244.1.2
page(s): 57 [details]
source of synonymy Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1982). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part IV. Family Poritidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 5: 1-159. [details] Available for editors
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality