Scleractinia name details
Montastrea tampaensis (Vaughan, 1919) †
1348331 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1348331)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
- Subspecies Montastrea tampaensis silecensis (Vaughan, 1919) † accepted as Montastraea canalis (Vaughan, 1919) † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
(of Orbicella tampaensis Vaughan, 1919 †) Vaughan TW. (1919). Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the Canal Zone, Panama, and geologically related areas in Central America and the West Indies. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico: with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and recent coral reefs. <em>United States National Museum Bulletin.</em> 103: 189-524, pls. 68-152. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Montastrea tampaensis (Vaughan, 1919) †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1348331 on 2025-09-11
original description
(of Orbicella tampaensis Vaughan, 1919 †) Vaughan TW. (1919). Contributions to the geology and paleontology of the Canal Zone, Panama, and geologically related areas in Central America and the West Indies. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico: with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and recent coral reefs. <em>United States National Museum Bulletin.</em> 103: 189-524, pls. 68-152. [details]
basis of record Flórez P, Zapata-Ramírez P, Klaus JS. (2019). Early Miocene shallow-water corals from La Guajira, Colombia: part I, Acroporidae–Montastraeidae. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 93(1): 1-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2018.45 [details]
additional source Frost SH, Langenheim RL Jr. (1974). Scleractinian corals. In: Cenozoic reef biofacies. Tertiary larger Foraminifera and scleractinian corals from Chipas, Mexico. <em>Northern Illinois University Press, Chicago.</em> pp 173-314. [details]
new combination reference Weisbord NE. (1973). New and little-know corals from the Tampa Formation of Florida. <em>Geological Bulletin, State of Florida Department of Natural Resources, Division of Interior Resources, Bureau of Geology.</em> 56: 1-157. [details]
basis of record Flórez P, Zapata-Ramírez P, Klaus JS. (2019). Early Miocene shallow-water corals from La Guajira, Colombia: part I, Acroporidae–Montastraeidae. <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 93(1): 1-24., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2018.45 [details]
additional source Frost SH, Langenheim RL Jr. (1974). Scleractinian corals. In: Cenozoic reef biofacies. Tertiary larger Foraminifera and scleractinian corals from Chipas, Mexico. <em>Northern Illinois University Press, Chicago.</em> pp 173-314. [details]
new combination reference Weisbord NE. (1973). New and little-know corals from the Tampa Formation of Florida. <em>Geological Bulletin, State of Florida Department of Natural Resources, Division of Interior Resources, Bureau of Geology.</em> 56: 1-157. [details]