WoRMS taxon details
Caulastraea echinulata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)
289576 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:289576)
accepted
Species
Caulastraea aiharai Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Caulastrea aiharai Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Caulastrea echinulata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Dasyphyllia echinulata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Dasyphyllia echinulata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Mémoire sur les Polypes appartenant à la famille des Oculinides, au groupe intermédiaire des Pseudastréides et à la famille des Fongides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 29: 67-73., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1225794 [details]
Holotype (of Dasyphyllia echinulata Milne Edwards &...
Holotype (of Dasyphyllia echinulata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) MNHN IK-2010-536 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Caulastraea echinulata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=289576 on 2026-09-16
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Dasyphyllia echinulata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Mémoire sur les Polypes appartenant à la famille des Oculinides, au groupe intermédiaire des Pseudastréides et à la famille des Fongides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 29: 67-73., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1225794 [details]
original description (of Caulastraea aiharai Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935) Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.42.379 [details]
original description (of Caulastrea aiharai Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935) Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.42.379 [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Caulastraea aiharai Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935) Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.42.379 [details]
original description (of Caulastrea aiharai Yabe & Sugiyama, 1935) Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.42.379 [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Other
additional source
Arrigoni R, Huang D, Berumen ML, Budd AF, Montano S, Richards ZT, Terraneo TI, Benzoni F. (2021). Integrative systematics of the scleractinian coral genera Caulastraea, Erythrastrea and Oulophyllia. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 50(4): 509-527., available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/zsc.12481 [details]
additional source Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. <em>Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. <em>Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype (of Dasyphyllia echinulata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) MNHN IK-2010-536 [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Caulastrea echinulata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Caulastrea echinulata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Caulastraea echinulata)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Dasyphyllia echinulata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (2 records)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Caulastrea echinulata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Caulastrea echinulata (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Caulastraea echinulata)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Dasyphyllia echinulata Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (2 records)
To ITIS
