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Isophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 
AphiaID: 204354

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Mussidae (Family) > Mussinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Oulophyllia spinosa Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Mussinae Ortmann, 1890
Synonymised
taxa
  Isophyllastrea Matthai, 1928 (junior synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Budd, A.F., Fukami, H., Smith, N.D. & Knowlton, N. 2012. Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166: 465–529. [details]

original description (from synonym): Matthai, G. 1928. A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History) 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

[show all]
 Species Isophyllia erythraea Klunz.
Species Isophyllia rigida (Dana, 1848)
Species Isophyllia sinuosa (Ellis & Solander)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204354
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-06-06 22:00:00Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-09-13 06:47:38Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2013-02-06 17:41:18Z  changed  Hoeksema, Bert
  
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  Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Isophyllia Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204354 on 2013-06-19
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