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WoRMS taxon detailsLeptoseris papyracea (Dana, 1846)
207278 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207278)
accepted
Species
Agaricia crispa Ehrenberg, 1834 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Folioseris crispa (Ehrenberg, 1834) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Folioseris papyracea (Dana, 1846) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Haloseris crispa (Ehrenberg, 1834) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Haloseris lactuca Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Leptoseris crispa (Ehrenberg, 1834) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Leptoseris digitata Vaughan, 1907 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Leptoseris panamensis Durham & Barnard, 1952 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Leptoseris zamboi Nemenzo, 1971 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pavona pretosia Bassett-Smith, 1890 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pavona ramosa Bassett-Smith, 1890 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pavonia crispa (Ehrenberg, 1834) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pavonia papyracea Dana, 1846 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Pavonia pretiosa Bassett-Smith, 1890 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pavonia ramosa Bassett-Smith, 1890 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine,
(of Pavonia papyracea Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details]
Note Sulu Sea (Veron, 1986)
Unreviewed
Type locality Sulu Sea (Veron, 1986) [details]
Description Colonies are delicate, unifacial, contorted and with irregularly divided fronds, each frond with a few corallites. Colour:...
Description Colonies are delicate, unifacial, contorted and with irregularly divided fronds, each frond with a few corallites. Colour: pale brown upper surface, white undersurface. Abundance: restricted to inter-reef areas on soft horizontal substrates where there is little sediment movement. Usually uncommon. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Leptoseris papyracea (Dana, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207278 on 2025-04-27
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Nomenclatureoriginal description
(of Leptoseris digitata Vaughan, 1907) Vaughan TW. (1907). Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. <em>US National Museum Bulletin.</em> 59 (9): 1-427., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10230 [details] original description (of Haloseris lactuca Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Mémoire sur les Polypes appartenant à la famille des Oculinides, au groupe intermédiaire des Pseudastréides et à la famille des Fongides. <em>Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris.</em> 29: 67-73., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1225794 [details] original description (of Agaricia crispa Ehrenberg, 1834) Ehrenberg, C. G. (1834). Beiträge zur physiologischen Kenntniss der Corallenthiere im allgemeinen, und besonders des rothen Meeres, nebst einem Versuche zur physiologischen Systematik derselben. <em>Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin.</em> 1: 225-380., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29725862 [details] original description (of Pavonia papyracea Dana, 1846) Dana, J.D. (1846-1849). Zoophytes. United States Exploring Expedition during the years 1838-1842. <em>Lea and Blanchard, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 1-740, 61 pls. (1846: 1-120, 709-720; 1848: 121-708, 721-740; 1849: atlas pls. 1-61)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18989497, http://www.sil.si.edu/digitalcollections/usexex/navigation/ScientificText/USExEx19_08select.cfm [details] original description (of Pavonia pretiosa Bassett-Smith, 1890) Bassett-Smith, P.W. (1890). Report on the corals from Tizard and Macclesfield Banks, China Sea. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History,.</em> 6(35): 353-374, 443-458, pls. 12-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008694050 [details] original description (of Pavonia ramosa Bassett-Smith, 1890) Bassett-Smith, P.W. (1890). Report on the corals from Tizard and Macclesfield Banks, China Sea. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History,.</em> 6(35): 353-374, 443-458, pls. 12-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008694050 [details] original description (of Leptoseris zamboi Nemenzo, 1971) Nemenzo, F. (1971). Systematic studies on Philippine shallow-water scleractinians: VII. Additional forms. <em>Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines.</em> 23: 141-209. [details] original description (of Leptoseris panamensis Durham & Barnard, 1952) Durham JW, Barnard JL (1952) Stony corals of the Eastern Pacific collected by the Velero III and Velero IV. Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition 16: 1-110, pls. 1-16. [details] original description (of Pavona pretosia Bassett-Smith, 1890) Bassett-Smith, P.W. (1890). Report on the corals from Tizard and Macclesfield Banks, China Sea. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History,.</em> 6(35): 353-374, 443-458, pls. 12-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008694050 [details] original description (of Pavona ramosa Bassett-Smith, 1890) Bassett-Smith, P.W. (1890). Report on the corals from Tizard and Macclesfield Banks, China Sea. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History,.</em> 6(35): 353-374, 443-458, pls. 12-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008694050 [details] basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details] Othercontext source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source 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] additional source Hoffmeister, J.E. (1925). Some corals from America Samoa and the Fiji Islands. <em>Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 22: 1-90, pls. 1-23. page(s): 42 [details] additional source Quelch J.J. (1886). Report on the Reef-corals collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873-76. <em>Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Zoology.</em> 16 (46): 1-203, pls 1-12., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-46/README.htm page(s): 29, 198 [details] additional source Verrill, A. E. (1864). List of the polyps and corals sent by the Museum of Comparative Zoology to other institutions in exchange, with annotations. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 1: 29-60., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6587563 page(s): 55 [details] additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 459: 13-46. page(s): 18 [details] additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137. page(s): 130 [details] additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  [request]additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1980). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part III. Family Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectinidae, Caryophyllidae, Dendrophylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 4: 1-459. [details] additional source van der Horst, C.J. (1921). The Madreporaria of the Siboga expedition: 2. Madreporaria Fungida. Siboga-Expeditie: uitkomsten op zoölogisch, botanisch, oceanographisch en geologisch gebied verzameld in Nederlandsch Oost-Indië 1899-1900 aan boord H.M. Siboga onder commando van Luitenant ter Zee 1e kl. G.F. Tydeman, XVIb. E.J. Brill: Leiden. 53-98, plates I-VI pp. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 3, 30, 45, Plate V [details] additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details] additional source Gardiner JS. (1905). Madreporaria III. Fungida IV. Turbinolidae. <em>Fauna and geography of the Maldives and Laccadives Archipelagoes, Cambridge.</em> 2: 933-957, pls. 89-93. page(s): 947 [details] additional source Nemenzo, F. 1976. Some new Philippine scleractinian reef corals. Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines 28: 229-276, pls. 1-10. page(s): 231, 239, 240 [details] additional source Vaughan TW. (1907). Recent Madreporaria of the Hawaiian Islands and Laysan. <em>US National Museum Bulletin.</em> 59 (9): 1-427., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/10230 page(s): 141, 421, 423 [details] additional source Reyes-Bonilla, H. (2002). Checklist of valid names and synonyms of stony corals (Anthozoa: Scleractinia) from the eastern Pacific. <em>Journal of Natural History.</em> 36(1): 1-13., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/713833841 [details] additional source Faustino LA. (1927). Recent Madreporaria of the Philippine Islands. <em>Bureau of Science Manila Monograph.</em> 22: 1-310, pls. 1-100. page(s): 41, 209 [details] additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555 page(s): 30, 78 [details] additional source Pillai CSG. (1972). Stony corals of the seas around India. <em>Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Corals and Coral Reefs, 1969. Marine Biological Association of India Symposium.</em> 5: 191-216. page(s): 202 [details] additional source van der Horst, C.J. (1922). Madreporaria: Agariciidae. Report of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean 1905, Volume 7. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Series 2, Zoology.</em> 18 (1): 417-429, pls. 31-32. page(s): 421 [details] additional source Fenner, D. P. (2005). Corals of Hawai'i. A Field Guide to the Hard, Black, and Soft Corals of Hawai'i and the Northwest Hawaiian Islands, Including Midway. <em>Mutual Publishing, Ltd., Honolulu.</em> 144 pp. page(s): 25, 70 [details] additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume II: Families Astrocoeniidae, Pocilloporidae, Euphyllidae, Oculinidae, Meandrinidae, Siderastreidae, Agariciidae, Fungiidae, Rhizangiidae, Pectiniidae, Merulinidae, Dendrophylliidae, Caryophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 2, pp. 429. page(s): 204 [details] additional source Maragos, J. E. (1977). Order Scleractinia, Stony Corals. Dennis M. Devaney and Lucius G. Eldredge (eds.). Bishop Museum Press. Honolulu, Hawaii, pp. 84 page(s): 162, 167-168, 190, 194 [details] additional source Wells JW. (1954). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands: Bikini and nearby atolls, part 2, oceanography (biologic). <em>U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 260(I): 385-486. page(s): 392, 399, 443, pl. 154 [details] additional source Pillai CSG. (1983). Structure and generic diversity of recent Scleractinia of India. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of India.</em> 25, 1-2, 78-90. page(s): 85 [details] additional source Veron, J. E. N.; Pichon, M. (1979). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia, part III: Families Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectiniidae, Caryophylliidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Government Publishing Service. Canberra., volume 4, pp. 422. page(s): 38-40 [details] additional source Kühlmann, D. H. H. (2006). Die Steinkorallensammlung im Naturhistorischen Museum in Rudolstadt (Thüringen) nebst ökologischen Bemerkungen. Rudolstädter Naturhistorische Schriften, 13, 37-113 page(s): 38, 62, 77, 112 [details]  Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Cotype (of Leptoseris digitata Vaughan, 1907) USNM 20892, geounit United States Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Cotype (of Leptoseris digitata Vaughan, 1907) USNM 20896, geounit United States Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Leptoseris digitata Vaughan, 1907) AHF 10.1 [details]
Nontype (of Leptoseris digitata Vaughan, 1907) AHF 10.2 [details]
Nontype (of Leptoseris digitata Vaughan, 1907) AHF 10.3 [details]
Nontype (of Leptoseris digitata Vaughan, 1907) AHF 10.4, geounit Colombian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Leptoseris digitata Vaughan, 1907) SUD 150, geounit Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Pavonia papyracea Dana, 1846) BMNH, geounit Vietnamese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Leptoseris panamensis Durham & Barnard, 1952) AHF 11.2 [details]
Nontype NMSR 9016, geounit Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype SUD 115, geounit Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype UAZM [details]
Nontype UAZM [details]
Nontype UAZM [details]
Nontype WAM 150-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type (of Leptoseris digitata Vaughan, 1907) IMC, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type (of Leptoseris digitata Vaughan, 1907) USNM, geounit United States Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type (of Haloseris crispa (Ehrenberg, 1834)) MNB, geounit Philippines Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]Unreviewed
Description Colonies are delicate, unifacial, contorted and with irregularly divided fronds, each frond with a few corallites. Colour: pale brown upper surface, white undersurface. Abundance: restricted to inter-reef areas on soft horizontal substrates where there is little sediment movement. Usually uncommon. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details]Type locality Sulu Sea (Veron, 1986) [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (20 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Pavonia ramosa Bassett-Smith, 1890) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Leptoseris zamboi Nemenzo, 1971) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Leptoseris panamensis Durham & Barnard, 1952) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Pavonia pretiosa Bassett-Smith, 1890) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications) (from synonym Leptoseris digitata Vaughan, 1907) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Agaricia crispa Ehrenberg, 1834) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) (from synonym Pavonia papyracea Dana, 1846) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Leptoseris papyracea) To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 8 proteins) To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 8 proteins) (from synonym Pavonia papyracea Dana, 1846) To IUCN Red List (Critically Endangered) (from synonym Pavonia crispa (Ehrenberg, 1834)) To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) To NMNH Extant Collection (IZCOE137verycloseup) (from synonym Pavonia papyracea Dana, 1846) To NMNH Extant Collection (Leptoseris papyracea USNM 98510) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record) (from synonym Pavonia papyracea Dana, 1846) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (1 record) (from synonym Leptoseris panamensis Durham & Barnard, 1952) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (26 records) (from synonym Leptoseris digitata Vaughan, 1907) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (42 records) To ITIS |
