WoRMS name details
Madrepora pulchra Brook, 1891
759858 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:759858)
unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Species
- Variety Madrepora pulchra var. alveolata Brook, 1893 accepted as Acropora pulchra (Brook, 1891) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Brook G (1891) Descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8: 458-471., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939109459223 [details] 
Holotype BMNH 1884.2.16.1, geounit Cocos Islands...
Holotype BMNH 1884.2.16.1, geounit Cocos Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S.; Samimi-Namin, K. (2026). World List of Scleractinia. Madrepora pulchra Brook, 1891. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=759858 on 2026-08-14
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Nomenclature
original description
Brook G (1891) Descriptions of new species of Madrepora in the collections of the British Museum. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8: 458-471., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939109459223 [details]
basis of record Veron JEN, Wallace CC (1984) Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part V. Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series 6: 1–485. [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Veron JEN, Wallace CC (1984) Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part V. Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series 6: 1–485. [details] Available for editors
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context source (Hexacorallia)
Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Gardiner JS (1898) On the perforate corals collected by the author in the South Pacific. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898: 257-276, pls. 23-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb03144.x [details]
additional source Wallace CC. (1999). Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. CSIRO, Collingwood (Australia). pp i-xvii, 1-421. [details]
additional source Gardiner JS (1898) On the perforate corals collected by the author in the South Pacific. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898: 257-276, pls. 23-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1898.tb03144.x [details]
additional source Wallace CC. (1999). Staghorn corals of the world: a revision of the coral genus Acropora (Scleractinia; Astrocoeniina; Acroporidae) worldwide, with emphasis on morphology, phylogeny and biogeography. CSIRO, Collingwood (Australia). pp i-xvii, 1-421. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
