WoRMS taxon details

Acropora kenti (Brook, 1892)

207111  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207111)

accepted
Species
Madrepora (Polystachys) kenti Brook, 1892 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892) Brook G (1892) Preliminary descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10: 451-465. [details]   
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora kenti (Brook, 1892). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207111 on 2024-04-16
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1998-03-27 07:29:36Z
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2014-04-13 21:57:04Z
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2022-08-11 16:37:21Z
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2023-09-12 13:06:58Z
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original description  (of Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892) Brook G (1892) Preliminary descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10: 451-465. [details]   

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

basis of record Faure, G. (1977). Annotated checklist of the corals in the Mascarene Archipelago, Indian Ocean. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 203: 1-26. [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Verrill AE. (1902). Notes on corals of the genus Acropora (Madrepora Lam.) with new descriptions and figures of types, and of several new species. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 11: 207-266, pls. 36, 36A-F.
page(s): 259 [details]   

additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260(I): 385-486.
page(s): 390, 423, Pl. 119 [details]   

additional source Bridge TCL, Cowman PF, Quattrini AM, Bonito VE, Sinniger F, Harii S, Head CEI, Hung JY, Halafihi T, Rongo T, Baird AH. (2023). <i>A. tenuis</i> relationship: traditional taxonomy obscures systematics and biogeography of the '<i>Acropora tenuis</i>' (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) species complex. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> , available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad062 [details]   

source of synonymy Veron JEN, Wallace CC (1984) Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part V. Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series 6: 1–485. [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Syntype (of Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892) BMNH 29.6.8.203 [sic], geounit Solomon Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Syntype (of Madrepora kenti Brook, 1892) BMNH 92.6.8.202, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]