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WoRMS taxon detailsCaulastraea furcata Dana, 1846
 289577 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:289577)
accepted
Species
Caulastraea distorta Dana, 1846 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Caulastrea distorta Dana, 1846 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Caulastrea furcata Dana, 1846 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
marine,
Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]
Holotype USNM 80
Holotype USNM 80 [details] From editor or global species database
Type locality Fiji (USEE) (Recent) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Caulastraea furcata Dana, 1846. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=289577 on 2025-07-14
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details] original description (of Caulastraea distorta Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details] original description (of Caulastrea distorta Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details] original description (of Caulastrea furcata Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [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] Othercontext source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T, Eguchi M. (1936). Recent reef-building corals from Japan and the South Sea Islands under the Japanese mandate. I. <em>The Science reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai, 2nd Series (Geologie).</em> Special Volume 1: 1-66, pls. 1-59. page(s): 19 [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  [request]additional source 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. page(s): 393 [details] additional source Quelch J.J. (1886). Report on the Reef-corals collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Zoology.</em> 16 (46): 1-203, pls 1-12., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-46/README.htm page(s): 17, 196 [details] additional source Dana, J.D. (1846-1847). On Zoophytes. <em>The American Journal of Science and Arts, Second Series.</em> 2(4): 64-69; 2(5): 187-202; 3(7): 1-24; 3(8): 160-163; 3(9): 337-347. New-Haven., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28135503 page(s): 198-199 [details] additional source Chevalier JP. (1975). Les Scléractiniaires de la Mélanésie Française (Nouvelle-Caledonie, Iles Chesterfield, Iles Loyauté, Nouvelles Hébrides). II. Expedition Française sur les Récifs Coralliens Nouv.-Calédonie. 7: 1-407, pls. 1-42. Paris. [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 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 Dana, J. D. (1849). Atlas. Zoophytes. C. Sherman. Philadelphia., pp. 12-01 page(s): 4, 198 [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype USNM 80 [details]
Nontype (of Caulastrea furcata Dana, 1846) WAM 423-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Caulastrea furcata Dana, 1846) WAM 597-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype (of Caulastrea furcata Dana, 1846) WAM 615-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype (of Caulastrea furcata Dana, 1846) WAM 713-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype (of Caulastrea furcata Dana, 1846) WAM 940-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype IGPS 41330, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 41337, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 48297, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 56623, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 58901, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]Type locality Fiji (USEE) (Recent) [details]
To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Caulastrea furcata Dana, 1846) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Caulastrea furcata Dana, 1846) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Caulastraea furcata) To Fishipedia To GenBank (76 nucleotides; 43 proteins) To GenBank (76 nucleotides; 43 proteins) (from synonym Caulastrea furcata Dana, 1846) To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) To NMNH Extant Collection (IZCOE80verycloseup) To NMNH Extant Collection (IZCOE80wholecolony) To NMNH Extant Collection (IZCOE82closeup) (from synonym Caulastraea distorta Dana, 1846) To NMNH Extant Collection (IZCOE82verycloseup) (from synonym Caulastraea distorta Dana, 1846) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record) (from synonym Caulastraea distorta Dana, 1846) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (41 records) To ITIS |
