African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Acropora vasiformis (Brook, 1893)

WoRMS name details

Acropora vasiformis (Brook, 1893)

AphiaID

207073 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207073)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Acropora clathrata (Brook, 1891)

Rank

Species

Parent

Acropora Oken, 1815

Original name

Madrepora (Eumadrepora) vasiformis Brook, 1893

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Madrepora (Eumadrepora) vasiformis Brook, 1893) Brook G (1893). The genus Madrepora. Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History) 1: 1-212, pls. 1-35. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora vasiformis (Brook, 1893). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207073 on 2025-05-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-01-31 16:37:49Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2013-09-13 13:06:08Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2020-09-05 14:46:27Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-10 16:41:32Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Madrepora (Eumadrepora) vasiformis Brook, 1893) Brook G (1893). The genus Madrepora. Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History) 1: 1-212, pls. 1-35. [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Lemmens, J. W. T. J. (1993). Reef-building corals (Cnidaria: Scleractinia) from the Watamu Marine National Reserve, Kenya; an annotated species list. Zoologische mededelingen. 67: 453-465. [details]

source of synonymy Sheppard CRC. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. Atoll Research Bulletin. 307: 1-32., available online at http:// https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.307.1 [details]

Other

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Wallace CC. (1999). Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. CSIRO, Collingwood (Australia). pp i-xvii, 1-421. [details]

additional source Pillai CSG, Scheer G (1976) Report on the stony corals from the Maldive Archipelago. Results of the Xarifa Expedition 1957/58. Zoologica, Stuttgart 43 (126): 1-83, pls. 1-32. [details]

additional source Boshoff, P.H. (1981). An annotated checklist of Southern Africa Scleractinia. Oceanographic Research Institute Investigational Report, Durban. 49: 1-45.
page(s): 13 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins)