WoRMS name details
Aphrastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848
763540 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:763540)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Genus
Astrea deformis Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Favites pentagona (Esper, 1790) (type by original designation)
- Species Aphrastrea deformis (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Favites pentagona (Esper, 1790) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Note sur la classification de la deuxième tribu de la famille des Astréides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 27: 490–497., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.29692 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Aphrastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=763540 on 2025-05-03
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Nomenclature
original description
Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Note sur la classification de la deuxième tribu de la famille des Astréides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 27: 490–497., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.29692 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
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]