WoRMS taxon details
Montastraea Blainville, 1830
AphiaID: 204717
AphiaID: 204717
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Montastraeidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Montastraeidae Yabe & Sugiyama, 1941 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Montastrea Blainville, 1830 (Spelling variation) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Blainville, H.M. de, 1830. Zoophytes. In: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles 60: 1-631. Levrault, Paris. [details] additional source: 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] basis of record (from synonym): Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] [view taxon] additional source (from synonym): Cairns, S.D., 2009. Stylasteridae, Scleractinia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Species Montastraea annularis (Ellis & Solander) Species Montastraea annuligera (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Species Montastraea aperta (Verrill) Species Montastraea cavernosa Linnaeus, 1767 Species Montastraea curta (Dana, 1846) Species Montastraea faveolata (Ellis & Solander, 1786) Species Montastraea franksi (Gregory, 1895) Species Montastraea magnistellata Chevalier, 1971 Species Montastraea multipunctata Hodgson, 1985 Species Montastraea valenciennesi (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848) | ||||||||||||||||
| Link | To GenBank | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Colonies are massive, either flat or dome-shaped. Corallites are monocentric and plocoid. Daughter corallites are predominantly formed by extratentacular budding, that is budding from the wall of parent corallites. Some intracentacular budding may also occur (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details] Remark: Type species: Astraea guettardi Defrance, 1826 from an unknown locality (Veron, 1986). [details] Spelling: Misspelled as Montastrea in Veron (1986) [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204717 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Montastraea Blainville, 1830. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204717 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||||||||
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