URMO taxon details
Dipsastraea laxa (Klunzinger, 1879)
758235 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:758235)
accepted
Species
Favia laxa (Klunzinger, 1879) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of ) Klunzinger CB. (1879). Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres, 3. Theil: Die Steinkorallen. Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Asteraeaceen und Fungiaceen. 1-100, pls. 1-10. Gutmann, Berlin. [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Dipsastraea laxa (Klunzinger, 1879). Accessed through: Land J. van der (ed). (2008) UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758235 on 2025-06-17
Land J. van der (ed). (2008). UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms (URMO). Dipsastraea laxa (Klunzinger, 1879). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/urmo/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758235 on 2025-06-17
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(of ) Klunzinger CB. (1879). Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres, 3. Theil: Die Steinkorallen. Zweiter Abschnitt: Die Asteraeaceen und Fungiaceen. 1-100, pls. 1-10. Gutmann, Berlin. [details]
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]
additional source Khalil HM, Fathy MS, Al Sawy SM. (2021). Quaternary corals (Scleractinia: Merulinidae) from the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast. <em>Geological Journal.</em> , available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gj.4145?af=R [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]
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]
additional source Khalil HM, Fathy MS, Al Sawy SM. (2021). Quaternary corals (Scleractinia: Merulinidae) from the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast. <em>Geological Journal.</em> , available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gj.4145?af=R [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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | knob coral [from synonym] | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (84 publications) (from synonym Favia laxa (Klunzinger, 1879))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dipsastraea laxa)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Favia laxa (Klunzinger, 1879))
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (5 records)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (84 publications) (from synonym Favia laxa (Klunzinger, 1879))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dipsastraea laxa)
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Favia laxa (Klunzinger, 1879))
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (5 records)
