Scleractinia name details

Orbicella brevis (Duncan, 1864) †

1457426  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1457426)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Vacatina (Suborder)
  8. Merulinidae (Family)
  9. Orbicella (Genus)
  10. Orbicella brevis † (Species)
 unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
(of Astraea brevis Duncan, 1864 †) Duncan PM. (1864). On the fossil corals of the West Indian Islands - Part II. <em>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 20: 20-45, pls. 2-5. [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Orbicella brevis (Duncan, 1864) †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1457426 on 2025-05-07
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original description (of Astraea brevis Duncan, 1864 †) Duncan PM. (1864). On the fossil corals of the West Indian Islands - Part II. <em>Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 20: 20-45, pls. 2-5. [details] 

additional source Vaughan TW, Hoffmeister JE. (1926). Miocene corals from Trinidad. <em>Papers of the Department of Marine Biology, Carnegie Institution of Washington.</em> 23: 107-132, pl. 1. [details] 

new combination reference 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] 

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