Chinese Register of Marine Species - Plerogyra Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

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Marine Species
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Plerogyra Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

Plerogyra sinuosa

AphiaID

204353 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204353)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Plerogyridae Rowlett, 2020

Parent

Plerogyridae Rowlett, 2020

Original name

Plerogyra Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848

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Species Plerogyra sinuosa (Dana, 1846)

Environment

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

Original description

Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Note sur la classification de la deuxième tribu de la famille des Astréides. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris. 27: 490–497., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.29692 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Plerogyra Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed through: Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2025) Chinese Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204353 on 2026-08-31

Regional species database citation

Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Plerogyra Milne Edwards & Haime, 1848. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204353 on 2026-08-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-03 14:17:27Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-07-18 15:57:33Z

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Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-27 07:06:07Z

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Martinez, Olga

2013-09-08 13:36:39Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2014-04-21 09:20:09Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2014-06-24 12:43:55Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2019-10-08 20:42:32Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2020-11-01 11:15:00Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

2022-05-15 06:23:49Z

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Hoeksema, Bert

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original description Milne Edwards, H.; Haime, J. (1848). Note sur la classification de la deuxième tribu de la famille des Astréides. Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l'Académie des sciences, Paris. 27: 490–497., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.29692 [details]

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

taxonomy source Rowlett J. (2020). Indo-Pacific Corals. Rowlett (self-published). pp. 1-809. [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. Angus & Robertson Publishers. [details]

additional source Alloiteau J. (1957). Contribution à la systématique des Madréporaires fossiles. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris. pp 462. [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 Matthai G. (1928). A Monograph of the Recent meandroid Astraeidae. Catalogue of the Madreporarian Corals in the British Museum (Natural History). 7: 1-288, pls. 1-72. [details] Available for editors

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 Veron JEN, Pichon M. (1980). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part III. Family Agariciidae, Siderastreidae, Fungiidae, Oculinidae, Merulinidae, Mussidae, Pectinidae, Caryophyllidae, Dendrophylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series. 4: 1-459., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60646 [details]

additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia. [details]