WoRMS taxon details
Caulastraea Dana, 1846
AphiaID: 267299
AphiaID: 267299
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Cnidaria (Phylum) > Anthozoa (Class) > Hexacorallia (Subclass) > Scleractinia (Order) > Merulinidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Caulastraea furcata Dana, 1846 (type by subsequent designation) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Merulinidae Verrill, 1865 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Caulastrea Dana, 1846 (wrong spelling) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Dana, J.D. 1846. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. Zoophytes 7: 1-740. Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia. [details] 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] from synonym: Veron, J.E.N. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers, London. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Caulastraea curvata Wijsman-Best, 1972 Species Caulastraea echinulata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Species Caulastraea furcata Dana, 1846 Species Caulastraea tumida Matthai, 1928 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:267299 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Hoeksema, B. (2013). Caulastraea Dana, 1846. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=267299 on 2013-05-19 | |||||||||||
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