African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Meandrina Lamarck, 1801

Label from the holotype of Brachymaeandrina pachychila.

AphiaID

206740 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206740)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Meandrinidae Gray, 1847

Parent

Meandrinidae Gray, 1847

Original name

Meandrina Lamarck, 1801

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Species Meandrina daedalea (Ellis & Solander, 1786) accepted as Platygyra daedalea (Ellis & Solander, 1786) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Meandrina lamellina (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834) accepted as Platygyra lamellina (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

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

Original description

Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris. : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Meandrina Lamarck, 1801. 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://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206740 on 2026-02-27

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. Meandrina Lamarck, 1801. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206740 on 2026-02-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-25 06:54:45Z

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Martinez, Olga

2013-09-03 22:03:43Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2018-08-16 19:12:21Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2019-08-25 11:38:48Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-10 10:52:12Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2024-09-22 18:51:59Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

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original description Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris. : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 [details]

basis of record 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]

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

additional source Wells JW. (1936). The nomenclature and type species of some genera of recent and fossil corals. American Journal of Science. 31: 97-134., available online at https://ajsonline.org/article/61464 [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 Zlatarski VN, Martinez Estalella N. (1982). Les Scléractiniaires de Cuba avec des données sur les organismes associés. Editions l'Académie bulgare des Sciences, Sofia. 472 pp. [details]

additional source Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. pp 462. [details]

additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 702 [details]