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

WoRMS name details

Acropora cymbicyathus (Brook, 1893)

AphiaID

207109 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207109)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted Name

Acropora cerealis (Dana, 1846)

Rank

Species

Parent

Acropora Oken, 1815

Original name

Madrepora (Polystachys) cymbicyathus Brook, 1893

Environment

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

Original description

(of Madrepora (Polystachys) cymbicyathus 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 cymbicyathus (Brook, 1893). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207109 on 2025-04-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-01-22 08:26:58Z

created

Fondo, Esther

2014-04-13 21:57:04Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2020-09-05 14:46:27Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-08-11 16:37:21Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Madrepora (Polystachys) cymbicyathus 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]

basis of record 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]

new combination reference Veron JEN, Wallace CC (1984) Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part V. Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series 6: 1–485. [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): 10, 12, 55, 63, Pl. 13, figs. 2a, 2b [details]

additional source Wells JW. (1955). Recent and subfossil corals of Moreton Bay, Queensland. Queensland. University of Queensland Papers, Department of Geology. 4 (10): 1-18, pls. 1-3.
page(s): 5, 9 [details]

additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 260(I): 385-486.
page(s): 390, 400, 401, 424, 425, Pl. 124 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To ITIS