WoRMS taxon details
Dipsastraea danai (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)
758238 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:758238)
accepted
Species
Astraea danae (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (basionym)
Favia favus var. danae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Dipsastraea danai (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758238 on 2026-01-14
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details]
new combination reference Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details]
new combination reference Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details]
Other
additional source
Huang D, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Budd AF (2014) Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12140 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dipsastraea danai)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record) (from synonym Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (Holotype USNM 32) (from synonym Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dipsastraea danai)
To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 8 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record) (from synonym Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (Holotype USNM 32) (from synonym Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)
