African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Dipsastraea helianthoides (Wells, 1954)

WoRMS taxon details

Dipsastraea helianthoides (Wells, 1954)

AphiaID

758239 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:758239)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Dipsastraea Blainville, 1830

Original name

Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954

Synonymised names

Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)

Plesiastrea helianthoides (Wells, 1954) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

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

Original description

(of Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954) Wells JW. (1954). Bikini and nearby atols: 2. Oceanography (biologic). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 260-1: 385-486, pls. 94-185. [details]

Type data

Holotype (of Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954) USNM...

Holotype (of Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954) USNM 44980, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Dipsastraea helianthoides (Wells, 1954). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758239 on 2024-12-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-03-16 01:08:52Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-12-31 22:47:05Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954) Wells JW. (1954). Bikini and nearby atols: 2. Oceanography (biologic). Recent corals of the Marshall Islands. Geological Survey Professional Paper. 260-1: 385-486, pls. 94-185. [details]

additional source Huang D, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Budd AF (2014) Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355. [details]

new combination reference Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Holotype (of Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954) USNM 44980, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954) WAM 362-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954) WAM 74-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

Nontype (of Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954) WAM 950-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]

From editor or global species database

Biology zooxanthellate [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	knob coral [from synonym]	[details]
Japanese	ウモレキクメイシ	[details]

To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) (from synonym Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (11 publications) (from synonym Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Dipsastraea helianthoides)
To Genbank (from synonym Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954)
To Genbank
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (6 records)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Cnidaria Collection (Holotype USNM 44980) (from synonym Favia helianthoides Wells, 1954)