WoRMS taxon details
Craterastrea Head, 1983
204775 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204775)
accepted
Genus
Craterastrea levis Head, 1983 (type by original designation)
- Species Craterastrea levis Head, 1983
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Head, S.M. 1983. An undescribed species of Merulina and a new genus and species of siderastreid coral from the Red Sea. Journal of Natural History 17: 419-435. [details]
Status The monotypic genus Craterastrea was assigned to the family Siderastreidae owing to the similarity of its septal...
Status The monotypic genus Craterastrea was assigned to the family Siderastreidae owing to the similarity of its septal micromorphology to that of Coscinaraea. Subsequently, it was synonymised with Leptoseris, family Agariciidae, based on corallum macromorphology. However, Benzoni et al. 2012 restored it on the basis of a combined morphologic and molecular approach. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Craterastrea Head, 1983. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204775 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Head, S.M. 1983. An undescribed species of Merulina and a new genus and species of siderastreid coral from the Red Sea. Journal of Natural History 17: 419-435. [details]
Other
additional source
Benzoni, F., Arrigoni, R., Stefani, F., Stolarski, J., 2012. Systematics of the coral genus Craterastrea (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Scleractinia) and description of a new family through combined morphological and molecular analyses. Systematics and Biodiversity 10(4): 417–433., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772000.2012.744369 [details] Available for editors 
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Diagnosis Corallum colonial, attached, forming cup shaped colonies. Corallites plocoid, few in number and distant, wall synapticulothecal, perforate. Septa perforate, joined by synapticulae, fusing towards the fossa. Septa ornamentation composed of paddle-shaped granules. Columella developed, formed by multiple processes. Costae on the colony wall unequal to sub-equal. [details]Status The monotypic genus Craterastrea was assigned to the family Siderastreidae owing to the similarity of its septal micromorphology to that of Coscinaraea. Subsequently, it was synonymised with Leptoseris, family Agariciidae, based on corallum macromorphology. However, Benzoni et al. 2012 restored it on the basis of a combined morphologic and molecular approach. [details]
