WoRMS taxon details

Acropora elegans (Milne Edwards, 1860)

288200  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:288200)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Class)
  5. Hexacorallia (Subclass)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Acroporidae (Family)
  8. Acropora (Genus)
  9. Acropora elegans (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]   

(of Madrepora elegans Milne Edwards, 1860) Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]   

(of Madrepora (Distichocyathus) elegans Milne Edwards, 1860) Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]   
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2021). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora elegans (Milne Edwards, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=288200 on 2021-03-07
Date
action
by
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
created
van der Land, Jacob
2014-02-04 19:26:27Z
changed
Hoeksema, Bert
2015-11-22 17:30:27Z
changed
Hoeksema, Bert

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original description Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]   

original description  (of Acropora magnifica Nemenzo, 1971) Nemenzo, F. (1971). Systematic studies on Philippine shallow-water scleractinians: VII. Additional forms. <em>Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines.</em> 23: 141-209. [details]   

original description  (of Madrepora elegans Milne Edwards, 1860) Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]   

original description  (of Madrepora (Distichocyathus) elegans Milne Edwards, 1860) Milne Edwards H (1860) Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 3: 1-560. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]   

basis of record Cairns SD, Hoeksema BW, van der Land J. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]   

additional source Wallace, CC. (1999). Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. CSIRO, Collingwood (Australia). pp i-xvii, 1-421.  [details]   

additional source Santodomingo N, Wallace CC, Johnson KG. (2015). Fossils reveal a high diversity of the staghorn coral genera Acropora and Isopora (Scleractinia: Acroporidae) in the Neogene of Indonesia. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 175: 677-763., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12295 [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
 

From other sources
Biology zooxanthellate [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Acropora magnifica Nemenzo, 1971)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) 
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 0 proteins) 
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable) 
To ITIS

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