Scleractinia taxon details
Aplopsammia Alloiteau, 1958 †
1439891 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1439891)
accepted
Genus
Aplopsammia collignoni Alloiteau, 1958 † (type by original designation)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Alloiteau J. (1958). Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar. <em>Annales Géologiques de Madagascar.</em> 25: 1-218, pls 1-38. [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Aplopsammia Alloiteau, 1958 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1439891 on 2025-06-04
Date
action
by
original description
Alloiteau J. (1958). Monographie des madreporaires fossiles de Madagascar. <em>Annales Géologiques de Madagascar.</em> 25: 1-218, pls 1-38. [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
basis of record Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Diagnosis Corallum solitary, ceratoid, and free; theca finely granular; septa arranged normally; columella spongy. [details]Remark Considered as a dendrophylliid genus of uncertain position by Cairns (2001) because of the poor preservation of the type specimens. Monotypic. [details]
