Scleractinia name details
Australopsammia Rowlett, 2020
1464210 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1464210)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Genus
Lobophyllia aurea Quoy & Gaimard, 1833 accepted as Tubastraea aurea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (type by monotypy)
- Species Australopsammia aurea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) accepted as Tubastraea aurea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Rowlett J. (2020). Indo-Pacific Corals. <em>Rowlett (self-published).</em> pp. 1-809. [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Australopsammia Rowlett, 2020. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1464210 on 2025-09-10
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original description
Rowlett J. (2020). Indo-Pacific Corals. <em>Rowlett (self-published).</em> pp. 1-809. [details]
source of synonymy Yiu SKF & Qiu J-W. (2022). Three new species of the sun coral genus Tubastraea (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) from Hong Kong, China. <em>Zoological Studies.</em> 61: 45., available online at http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/61/61-45.pdf [details]
source of synonymy Yiu SKF & Qiu J-W. (2022). Three new species of the sun coral genus Tubastraea (Scleractinia: Dendrophylliidae) from Hong Kong, China. <em>Zoological Studies.</em> 61: 45., available online at http://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/61/61-45.pdf [details]
From editor or global species database
Synonymy Yiu & Qiu (2022) consider Tubastraea aurea (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) as the valid name, since the decision to classify it otherwise was based only on the fact that the type locality of this species is in the southern hemisphere, rather than on morphological and phylogenetic analysis. The change in classification contradicted the result of a phylogenetic study showing that it is nested within a clade of Turbastraea (Arrigoni et al. 2014). [details]
Unreviewed
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