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Montastrea Blainville, 1830 
AphiaID: 248068

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Faviidae (Family)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (Spelling variation)
Record
status		 Added by Database Management Team
Accepted name  Montastraea Blainville, 1830
Rank Genus
Parent Faviidae Gregory, 1900
Sources  basis of record: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details]

additional source: Cairns, S.D., 2009. Stylasteridae, Scleractinia (Cnidaria). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Montastrea colemani Veron, 2002
Species Montastrea serageldini Veron, 2002
Host of  Asteropontella foliata Stock, 1989 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Link To ITIS
Image 
Montastrea sp.
Montastrea sp.
added on 2008-11-17 - author: Collection Georges Declercq
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:248068
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2007-11-20 17:29:06Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Montastrea Blainville, 1830. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=248068 on 2013-05-20
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