African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Montipora rus (Forskål, 1775)

WoRMS name details

Montipora rus (Forskål, 1775)

AphiaID

207134 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207134)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Montipora foliosa (Pallas, 1766)

Rank

Species

Parent

Montipora Blainville, 1830

Original name

Madrepora rus Forskål, 1775

Environment

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

Original description

(of Madrepora rus Forskål, 1775) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Montipora rus (Forskål, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207134 on 2025-05-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2014-04-13 09:56:48Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2019-10-09 16:43:43Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-08-11 08:33:02Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Madrepora rus Forskål, 1775) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059 [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 Klunzinger CB. (1879). Die Korallthiere des Rothen Meeres, 2. Theil: Die Steinkorallen. Erster Abschnitt: Die Madreporaceen und Oculinaceen. Gutmann, Berlin. pp. 1-88, pls. 1-10. [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Veron JEN, Wallace CC (1984) Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part V. Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series 6: 1–485. [details]

Other

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

additional source Ortmann, A. (1888). Studien über Systematik und geographische Verbreitung der Steinkorallen. Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abtheilung für Systematik, Biologie und Biogeographie der Tiere. 3: 143-188, pl. 6.
page(s): 155 [details]

additional source Milne Edwards H, Haime J (1851) Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 7. Monographie des Poritides. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3, 16: 21-70.
page(s): 58 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Identification This combination is based on a misidentication by Bernard (1897) [details]