African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Astraeosmilia connata Ortmann, 1892

WoRMS taxon details

Astraeosmilia connata Ortmann, 1892

AphiaID

762424 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:762424)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Astraeosmilia Ortmann, 1892

Parent

Astraeosmilia Ortmann, 1892

Original name

Astraeosmilia connata Ortmann, 1892

Synonymised names

Astreosmilia connata Ortmann, 1892 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

Caulastraea connata (Ortmann, 1892) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Caulastrea connata (Ortmann, 1892) · unaccepted > superseded combination (misspelling genus name)

Environment

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

Original description

Ortmann, A. (1892). Die Koralriffe von Dar-es-Salaam un Umgegend. Zoologische Jahrbüchern, Abteilung für Systematik, Biologie und Biogeographie der Tiere. 6: 631-670, pl. 29., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10195227 [details]

Type data

Holotype

Holotype [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Astraeosmilia connata Ortmann, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=762424 on 2025-04-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-05-25 07:31:03Z

created

Hoeksema, Bert

2021-03-05 17:37:46Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-14 09:41:15Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Ortmann, A. (1892). Die Koralriffe von Dar-es-Salaam un Umgegend. Zoologische Jahrbüchern, Abteilung für Systematik, Biologie und Biogeographie der Tiere. 6: 631-670, pl. 29., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10195227 [details]

basis of record 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., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12140 [details]

Taxonomy

status source Arrigoni R, Huang D, Berumen ML, Budd AF, Montano S, Richards ZT, Terraneo TI, Benzoni F. (2021). Integrative systematics of the scleractinian coral genera Caulastraea, Erythrastrea and Oulophyllia. Zoologica Scripta. 50(4): 509-527., available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/zsc.12481 [details]

Other

additional source Ryanskiy, A. (2024). Life on the reef: corals, sea squirts, sponges, Bryozoa, comb jellies, marine plants. Reef ID Books. Self-Published. [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Holotype [details]

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Caulastrea connata (Ortmann, 1892))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Astreosmilia connata Ortmann, 1892)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Astraeosmilia connata)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Caulastraea connata (Ortmann, 1892))
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)