African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Acanthastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

AfReMaS taxon details

Acanthastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Holotype of Astraea echinata Dana

AphiaID

206405 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206405)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Lobophylliidae Thiel, 1932

Original name

Acanthastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

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Species Acanthastrea brevis Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849
Species Acanthastrea echinata (Dana, 1846)
Species Acanthastrea hemprichii (Ehrenberg, 1834)
Species Acanthastrea pachysepta (Chevalier, 1975)
Species Acanthastrea amakusensis Veron, 1990 accepted as Micromussa amakusensis (Veron, 1990) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Acanthastrea angulosa Brüggemann, 1879 accepted as Homophyllia bowerbanki (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Acanthastrea bowerbanki Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 accepted as Homophyllia bowerbanki (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Acanthastrea erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879) accepted as Lobophyllia erythraea (Klunzinger, 1879) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Acanthastrea hillae Wells, 1955 accepted as Homophyllia bowerbanki (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Acanthastrea lordhowensis Veron & Pichon, 1982 accepted as Micromussa lordhowensis (Veron & Pichon, 1982) (unaccepted > superseded combination, basionym)
Species Acanthastrea simplex (Crossland, 1948) accepted as Lobophyllia simplex (Crossland, 1948) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

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

Original description

Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Note sur la classification de la deuxième tribu de la famille des Astréides. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris. 27: 490–497., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.29692 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Acanthastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206405 on 2026-02-05

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Acanthastrea Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206405 on 2026-02-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-03 14:17:27Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-07-18 15:57:33Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-04 06:53:11Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2013-09-02 17:11:15Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2019-10-08 20:42:32Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2025-02-25 10:07:01Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

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original description Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Note sur la classification de la deuxième tribu de la famille des Astréides. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris. 27: 490–497., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.29692 [details]

basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers. [details]

additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1980). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part III. Family Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectinidae, Caryophyllidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series. 4: 1-459. [details]

additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia. [details]

additional source Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details]

additional source Arrigoni R, Terraneo TI, Galli P, Benzoni F (2014) Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) reshuffled: Pervasive . non-monophyly at genus level. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 73: 60-64. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2014.01.010 [details]

additional source Huang D, Arrigoni R, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Stolarski J, Chou LM, Budd AF. (2016). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 178(3): 436-481., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12391 [details]

additional source Veron, J. E. N.; Pichon, M. (1979). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia, part III: Families Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectiniidae, Caryophylliidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra., volume 4, pp. 422.
page(s): 7, 264-266 [details]

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. [Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone]. , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]