Scleractinia name details
Placastrea Stoliczka, 1873 †
1511224 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1511224)
uncertain > taxon inquirendum
Genus
Placastrea elegans Stoliczka, 1873 † (type by monotypy)
Placastraea Stoliczka, 1873 † · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
- Species Placastrea elegans Stoliczka, 1873 † (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Stoliczka, F. (1873). Cretaceous fauna of Southern India. Ser. VIII. 4-5. The corals or Anthozoa with notes on the Sponges, Foraminifera, Arthrozoa and Spondylozoa. <em>Memoirs of the Geology of India. Palaeontologia Indica.</em> . 4(8): 130-202, pls. 1-12. [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Placastrea Stoliczka, 1873 †. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1511224 on 2025-09-11
original description
Stoliczka, F. (1873). Cretaceous fauna of Southern India. Ser. VIII. 4-5. The corals or Anthozoa with notes on the Sponges, Foraminifera, Arthrozoa and Spondylozoa. <em>Memoirs of the Geology of India. Palaeontologia Indica.</em> . 4(8): 130-202, pls. 1-12. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Remark According to Stoliczka (1873, p. 33), his newly created genus Placastrea had all characteristics of a 'true' Astrea but differed from it by the occurrence of a 'solid compressedly columnar columella' and 'denticles at inner ends of septa not enlarged'. This description in insufficient in that it remains unclear how Placastrea differed from faviid genera like e.g. Favites or Ovalastrea, or fungiid taxa like Siderastrea, or even mussid forms like Acanthastrea. Wells (1956) grouped Placastrea with Isastrea. Material that has recently been assigned to Placastrea elegans Stoliczka by Loser et al (2009) shows close affinities to the genus Ovalastrea. [details]