Scleractinia taxon details
Dipsastraea danai (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857)
758238 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:758238)
accepted
Species
Astraea danae (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Favia danae Verrill, 1872 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (homonym)
Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (basionym)
Favia favus var. danae Verrill, 1872 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Dipsastraea danai (Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=758238 on 2025-09-11
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(of Favia danai Milne Edwards & Haime, 1857) Milne Edwards H, Haime J. (1857). Histoire naturelle des coralliaires ou polypes proprement dits 2. Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret, Paris. 631 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12403706 [details]
original description (of Favia danae Verrill, 1872) Verrill AE. (1872). Names of species in the author's report on Zoophytes. <em>In: Dana JD, Corals and coral islands.</em> Dodd & Mead, New York, pp. 379-388. [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]
original description (of Favia danae Verrill, 1872) Verrill AE. (1872). Names of species in the author's report on Zoophytes. <em>In: Dana JD, Corals and coral islands.</em> Dodd & Mead, New York, pp. 379-388. [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
Nontype (of Favia danae Verrill, 1872) IGPS 56632, geounit Marshall Islands Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Nontype (of Favia danae Verrill, 1872) IGPS 56633, geounit Palau Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unknown type (of Favia danae Verrill, 1872) IMC mrt-66 [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]