WoRMS taxon details

Cyphastrea microphthalma (Lamarck, 1816)

207416  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207416)

accepted
Species
Astraea (Orbicella) microphthalma Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Astraea microphthalma Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Astrea microphthalma Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Cyphastraea microphthalma (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted > superseded combination (misspelling)
Cyphastraea muelleri Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (misspelling)
Cyphastraea savignyi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cyphastraea serailia var. gardineri Matthai, 1914 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cyphastrea aspera Quelch, 1886 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cyphastrea gardineri Matthai, 1914 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cyphastrea minuta Nemenzo & Ferraris, 1982 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cyphastrea muellerae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cyphastrea muelleri Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cyphastrea savigny Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (misspelling)
Cyphastrea savignyi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Favia microphthalma (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Orbicella microphthalma (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Astraea microphthalma Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. M. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome second. <em>Paris. Verdière.</em> Vol. 2 pp. 1-568., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Note "Indian Ocean" (Veron, 1986).  
From other sources
Type locality "Indian Ocean" (Veron, 1986). [details]
Description This species is distinguished from the other members of the genus by the fact that it has only 10 primary septa. In Arabian...  
Description This species is distinguished from the other members of the genus by the fact that it has only 10 primary septa. In Arabian seas a common variant has only 8 primary septa, but these calices occur on the same corals as calices with 10 septa and thus are unlikely to be a different species. Calices range from being very plocoid to almost flush with the coenosteum. Most corallites have 10 primary septa. Colour: brown, cream or green. Abundance: common, but less so than C. serailia. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2024). World List of Scleractinia. Cyphastrea microphthalma (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207416 on 2024-03-28
Date
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1997-01-31 16:37:49Z
created
2000-07-18 15:57:33Z
changed
2008-01-16 10:35:54Z
changed
2014-03-16 13:26:33Z
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2021-04-28 05:39:27Z
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2022-05-15 06:23:49Z
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original description  (of Astrea microphthalma Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. M. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome second. <em>Paris. Verdière.</em> Vol. 2 pp. 1-568., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Astraea microphthalma Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, J.-B. M. de. (1816). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome second. <em>Paris. Verdière.</em> Vol. 2 pp. 1-568., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47698 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Cyphastrea aspera Quelch, 1886) Quelch JJ. (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, pl. 1-12., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-46/README.htm [details]   

original description  (of Cyphastrea gardineri Matthai, 1914) Matthai G. (1914). A revision of the recent colonial Astraeidae possessing distinct corallites. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd Series Zoology.</em> 17(1): 1-140, pls. 1-38. [details]   

original description  (of Cyphastrea savignyi Milne Edwards & Haime, 1849) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197. [details]   

original description  (of Cyphastrea minuta Nemenzo & Ferraris, 1982) Nemenzo F, CJ Ferraris (1982) Some scleractinian corals from the reefs of Cebu and Mactan Islands. Kalikasan: The Philippine Journal of Biology 11: 111-135. [details]   

original description  (of Cyphastrea muelleri Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851) Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1851). Monographie des polypiers fossiles des terrains palaeozoïques, précédée d'un tableau général de la classification des polypes. <em>Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, Archives.</em> 5: 1–502, 20 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25098869 [details]   

context source (HKRMS) Chan, A. L. K.; Chan, K. K.; Choi, C. L. S.; McCorry, D.; Lee, M. W.; Ang, P. (2005). Field guide to hard corals of Hong Kong. <em>Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, The Hong Kong SAR Government.</em>  [details]   

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS[details]   

basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em>  [details]   

additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M, Wijsman-Best M. (1977). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph series.</em> 3: 1-233. [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): 10, 12, 19-20 [details]   

additional source Vaughan TW. (1918). Some shallow-water corals from Murray Island (Australia), Cocos-Keeling Island, and Fanning Island. <em>Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 9 (213): 49-234, pls. 20-93. [details]  OpenAccess publication 

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): 28 [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): 133 [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  PDF available [request] 

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 Veron JEN. (2002). New species described in Corals of the World. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series.</em> 11: 1-209.
page(s): 171 [details]   

additional source Wells JW. (1955). Recent and subfossil corals of Moreton Bay, Queensland. <em>Queensland. University of Queensland Papers, Department of Geology.</em> 4 (10): 1-18, pls. 1-3.
page(s): 5, 14 [details]   

additional source Scheer G, Pillai CSG. (1974). Report on Scleractinia from the Nicobar Islands. <em>Zoologica, Stuttgart.</em> 42(122): 1-75.
page(s): 9, 54, 74 [details]   

additional source Matthai G. (1914). A revision of the recent colonial Astraeidae possessing distinct corallites. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, 2nd Series Zoology.</em> 17(1): 1-140, pls. 1-38. [details]   

additional source Umbgrove JHF. (1940). Madreporaria from the Togian Reefs (Gulf of Tomini, North-Celebes. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 22: 265-310.
page(s): 270, 276 [details]   

additional source Umbgrove JHF. (1939). Madreporaria from the Bay of Batavia. <em>Zoologische Mededelingen, Leiden.</em> 22: 1-64.
page(s): 11, 14, 17, 25 [details]   

additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T, Eguchi M. (1936). Recent reef-building corals from Japan and the South Sea Islands under the Japanese mandate. I. <em>The Science reports of the Tôhoku Imperial University, Sendai, 2nd Series (Geologie).</em> Special Volume 1: 1-66, pls. 1-59.
page(s): 23 [details]   

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.
page(s): 384, 385, 388, 393 [details]   

additional source Pillai CSG, Scheer G (1976) Report on the stony corals from the Maldive Archipelago. Results of the Xarifa Expedition 1957/58. Zoologica, Stuttgart 43 (126): 1-83, pls. 1-32. [details]   

additional source Crossland C (1952) Madreporaria, Hydrocorallinae, Heliopora and Tubipora. Scientific Report Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-29 VI(3): 85-257.
page(s): 90 [details]   

additional source Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1849). Recherches sur les polypiers. Mémoire 4. Monographie des Astréides (1) (suite). <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie, Series 3.</em> 12, 3, 95-197.
page(s): 114-115 [details]   

additional source Nemenzo F (1959) Systematic studies on Philippine shallow water scleractinians: II. Suborder Faviida. Natural and Applied Science Bulletin, University of the Philippines 16: 73-135, pls. 1-24.
page(s): 76, 113 [details]   

additional source Pichon, M.; Benzoni, F. (2007). Taxonomic re-appraisal of zooxanthellate Scleractinian Corals in the Maldive Archipelago. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1441: 21–33.
page(s): 32 [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]   

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): 10, 30, 36, 40, 115-116, 118 [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): 27, 114 [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): 207 [details]   

additional source Randall RH, Myers RF. (1983). The corals. Guide to the Coastal Resources of Guam: Vol. 2. <em>University of Guam Press, Guam, pp. 128.</em>  [details]   

additional source Khalil HM, Fathy MS, Al Sawy SM. (2021). Quaternary corals (Scleractinia: Merulinidae) from the Egyptian and Saudi Arabian Red Sea Coast. <em>Geological Journal.</em> , available online at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gj.4145?af=R [details]   

additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume III: Families Mussidae, Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae, Poritidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 3, pp. 490.
page(s): 246-247 [details]   

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Rose Atoll coral data compiled from US Fish and Wildlife Service 1994, Townsend Cromwell 2002, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 10]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [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): 87 [details]   

additional source Sheppard, C. R. C. (1985). Fringing reefs in the southern region, Jeddah to Jizan. Fauna of Saudi Arabia, 7, 37-58
page(s): 46 [details]   

additional source Reinicke, G. B.; Schuhmacher, H. (1996). Significance of different traits of soft-coral assemblages (Octocorallia, Alcyoniina) in benthic reef communities of the Red Sea. Göttinger Arbeiten zur Geologie Paläontologie, Sb2, 77-84
page(s): 82 [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): 63, 89, 112 [details]   

additional source Wallace, C. C.; Fellegara, I.; Muir, P. R.; Harrison, P. L. (2009). The scleractinian corals of Moreton Bay, eastern Australia: high latitude, marginal assemblages with increasing species richness. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 54, 2
page(s): 10, 82 [details]   

additional source Chukaew T, Isomura N, Mezaki T, Matsumoto H, Kitano YF, Nozawa Y, Tachikawa H, Fukami H. (2023). Molecular Phylogeny and Taxonomy of the Coral Genus Cyphastrea (Cnidaria, Scleractinia, Merulinidae) in Japan, With the First Records of Two Species. <em>Zoological Science.</em> 40(4)., available online at https://doi.org/10.2108/zs230009 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Nontype (of Cyphastrea minuta Nemenzo & Ferraris, 1982) MSI 340-CC [details]
Nontype HLD X2: 136-15, geounit Indian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 40768, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 44638, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 44653, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 44692, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 44693, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 44941, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 44943, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 45108, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 45152, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 50763, geounit Micronesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 51071, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 53076, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 53208, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 53256, geounit Micronesian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 56659, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype IGPS 56692, geounit Japanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype NMSR 8647, geounit Eritrean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 1022-79, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 1023-79, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 115-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 12-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 160-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 16-72, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 202-74, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 203-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 213-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 235-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 23-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 253-74, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 261-74, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 313-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 339-83, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 364-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 369-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 371-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 37-58, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 377-80, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 378-80, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 386-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 388-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 389-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 391-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 392-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 393-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 394-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 399-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 402-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 402-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 404-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 410-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 411-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 427-78, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 432-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 434-77, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 45-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 468-79, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 477-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 49-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 505-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 506-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 511-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 51-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 529-80, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 529-80, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 53-88, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 608-81, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 708-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 710-84, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 72-73, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype WAM 834-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 855-86, geounit Ashmore-Cartier Is. [details]
Nontype WAM 871-85, geounit Australian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]

From other sources
Description This species is distinguished from the other members of the genus by the fact that it has only 10 primary septa. In Arabian seas a common variant has only 8 primary septa, but these calices occur on the same corals as calices with 10 septa and thus are unlikely to be a different species. Calices range from being very plocoid to almost flush with the coenosteum. Most corallites have 10 primary septa. Colour: brown, cream or green. Abundance: common, but less so than C. serailia. (Veron, 1986 <57>) [details]

Type locality "Indian Ocean" (Veron, 1986). [details]
LanguageName 
English lesser knob coral  [details]
Japanese トゲキクメイシ  [details]