African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Acropora massawensis von Marenzeller, 1907

WoRMS name details

Acropora massawensis von Marenzeller, 1907

AphiaID

207004 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207004)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted Name

Acropora polystoma (Brook, 1891)

Rank

Species

Parent

Acropora Oken, 1815

Original name

Acropora massawensis von Marenzeller, 1907

Environment

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

Original description

Marenzeller, E. von. (1907). Riffkorallen. In: Expeditionen S.M. "Pola" in das Rote Meer. Nördliche und Südliche Hälfte 1895/96 – 1897/98. Zoologische Ergebnisse XXVI. Berichte der Kommission für Ozeanographische Forschungen. Denkschrift Akademischer Wissenschaften. 80: 27-97, pls. 1-29. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora massawensis von Marenzeller, 1907. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207004 on 2025-03-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1996-10-25 14:03:33Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2013-09-02 08:00:17Z

checked

Hoeksema, Bert

2013-09-08 13:36:39Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2014-04-13 09:56:48Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-08-11 16:37:21Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Marenzeller, E. von. (1907). Riffkorallen. In: Expeditionen S.M. "Pola" in das Rote Meer. Nördliche und Südliche Hälfte 1895/96 – 1897/98. Zoologische Ergebnisse XXVI. Berichte der Kommission für Ozeanographische Forschungen. Denkschrift Akademischer Wissenschaften. 80: 27-97, pls. 1-29. [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy 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]

Other

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

additional source Hoffmeister, J.E. (1925). Some corals from America Samoa and the Fiji Islands. Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington. 22: 1-90, pls. 1-23.
page(s): 8, 10, 12, 68-69, Pl. 18, figs. 1a, 1b, 1c [details]

additional source Veron JEN. (2002). New species described in Corals of the World. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series. 11: 1-209.
page(s): 59, 60 [details]

additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume I: Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 1, pp. 463.
page(s): 336 [details]

additional source Raghunathan, C. (2020). Corals and associated fauna in North Reef, Interview, Latouche, Kwangtung, and Shark Islanda Sanctuaries, North Andaman. Records of the Zoological Survey of India, Occasional Paper. 405: 1-188. [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)