WoRMS taxon details
Physogyra Quelch, 1884
205439 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205439)
accepted
Genus
Physogyra aperta Quelch, 1884 accepted as Physogyra lichtensteini (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851) (type by monotypy)
- Species Physogyra lichtensteini (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851)
- Species Physogyra astraeiformis Umbgrove, 1940 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Physogyra exerta Nemenzo & Ferraris, 1982 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Physogyra gravieri Vaughan, 1907 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Physogyra somaliensis Vaughan, 1907 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Physogyra aperta Quelch, 1884 accepted as Physogyra lichtensteini (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Quelch, J.J. 1884. Preliminary notice of new genera and species of Challenger reef-corals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5th Series 13: 292-297., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938409459237 [details]
Description Vesicles resemble masses of bubbles similar to but smaller than those of Plerogyra. Skeleton mostly of blistry plates...
Description Vesicles resemble masses of bubbles similar to but smaller than those of Plerogyra. Skeleton mostly of blistry plates (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Physogyra Quelch, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205439 on 2026-05-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Quelch, J.J. 1884. Preliminary notice of new genera and species of Challenger reef-corals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5th Series 13: 292-297., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222938409459237 [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Benzoni F, Arrigoni R, Waheed Z, Stefani F, Hoeksema BW (2014) Phylogenetic relationships and revision of the genus Blastomussa (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia) with description of a new species. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62: 358-378. [details] Available for editors 
[request]
taxonomy source Rowlett J. (2020). Indo-Pacific Corals. <em>Rowlett (self-published).</em> pp. 1-809. [details]
[request]taxonomy source Rowlett J. (2020). Indo-Pacific Corals. <em>Rowlett (self-published).</em> pp. 1-809. [details]
Other
context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. <em>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.</em> pp 462. [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 Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. <em>Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.42.379
page(s): 388 [details]
additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]
additional source Neave, S.A. (1939 - 1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus. vol. 1-10 Online., available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details]
additional source Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. <em>Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris.</em> pp 462. [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 Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. <em>Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History).</em> 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403., available online at https://doi.org/10.5575/geosoc.42.379
page(s): 388 [details]
additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]Unreviewed
Description Vesicles resemble masses of bubbles similar to but smaller than those of Plerogyra. Skeleton mostly of blistry plates (Veron, 1986 <57>). [details]
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Physogyra)
To Genbank
To NHMUK collection (Physogyra Quelch, 1884; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3470830)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Physogyra)
To Genbank
To NHMUK collection (Physogyra Quelch, 1884; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3470830)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
