Scleractinia taxon details
Dipsastraea truncata (Veron, 2000)
758228 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:758228)
accepted
Species
Favia truncata Veron, 2000 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
Favia truncatus Veron, 2000 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Favia truncatus Veron, 2000) Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details]
Holotype (of Favia truncatus Veron, 2000) MU G55823,...
Holotype (of Favia truncatus Veron, 2000) MU G55823, geounit Papua New Guinean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2021). World List of Scleractinia. Dipsastraea truncata (Veron, 2000). Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758228 on 2025-09-11
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(of Favia truncatus Veron, 2000) Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details]
additional source Huang D, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Budd AF (2014) Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12140 [details]
new combination reference Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details]
additional source Huang D, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Budd AF (2014) Taxonomic classification of the reef coral families Merulinidae, Montastraeidae, and Diploastraeidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 171: 277–355., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12140 [details]
new combination reference Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype (of Favia truncatus Veron, 2000) MU G55823, geounit Papua New Guinean Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]