African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Acropora pectinata (Brook, 1892)

WoRMS name details

Acropora pectinata (Brook, 1892)

AphiaID

207068 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207068)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted Name

Acropora hyacinthus (Dana, 1846)

Rank

Species

Parent

Acropora Oken, 1815

Original name

Madrepora pectinata Brook, 1892

Environment

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

Original description

(of Madrepora pectinata Brook, 1892) Brook G (1892) Preliminary descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10: 451-465. [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Acropora pectinata (Brook, 1892). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207068 on 2025-04-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-01-31 16:37:49Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2013-09-22 08:21:59Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-09-28 11:05:38Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Madrepora pectinata Brook, 1892) Brook G (1892) Preliminary descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Part II. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 10: 451-465. [details]

Taxonomy

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

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To IUCN Red List (Data Deficient)