WoRMS name details
Madreporaria
509663 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:509663)
Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857
unaccepted (synonymy)
Order
Zoantharia accepted as Hexacorallia
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Haime, J.; Milne Edwards, H. In: Milne Edwards, H. (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.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Madreporaria. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=509663 on 2026-08-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Haime, J.; Milne Edwards, H. In: Milne Edwards, H. (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]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Vaughan TW, Wells JW. (1943). Revision of the suborders, families and genera of the Scleractinia. <em>Special Papers of the Geological Society of America.</em> 44: 1-363., available online at https://doi.org/10.1130/spe44-p1 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
