Scleractinia name details

Plesiastrea russelli Wells, 1954

765850  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:765850)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Vacatina (Suborder)
  8. Plesiastreidae (Family)
  9. Plesiastrea (Genus)
  10. Plesiastrea russelli (Species)
 unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Wells JW. (1954). Bikini and nearby atols: 2. Oceanography (biologic). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands. <em>Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260-1: 385-486, pls. 94-185., available online at https://doi.org/10.3133/pp260i [details] 
Holotype  USNM 45004, geounit Marshall Islands...  
Holotype USNM 45004, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Plesiastrea russelli Wells, 1954. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=765850 on 2026-03-06
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original description Wells JW. (1954). Bikini and nearby atols: 2. Oceanography (biologic). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands. <em>Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260-1: 385-486, pls. 94-185., available online at https://doi.org/10.3133/pp260i [details] 

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

basis of record Veron JEN, Pichon M, Wijsman-Best M. (1977). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph series.</em> 3: 1-233., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60631 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Latypov, Y.Y. 1995. Scleractinian corals of Vietnam. Part III. Faviidae, Fungiidae. Nauka, Moscow (In Russian), pp. 1-140. [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype USNM 45004, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) 
To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 14 proteins) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (Holotype USNM 45004) 

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