Scleractinia taxon details

Dipsastraea faviaformis (Veron, 2000)

888171  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:888171)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Vacatina (Suborder)
  8. Merulinidae (Family)
  9. Dipsastraea (Genus)
  10. Dipsastraea faviaformis (Species)
accepted
Species
Acanthastrea faviaformis Veron, 2000 · unaccepted > superseded combination (basionym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Acanthastrea faviaformis 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 Acanthastrea faviaformis Veron, 2000) MTQ...  
Holotype (of Acanthastrea faviaformis Veron, 2000) MTQ G55832, geounit Saudi Arabian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Dipsastraea faviaformis (Veron, 2000). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=888171 on 2025-09-11
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original description (of Acanthastrea faviaformis Veron, 2000) Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details] 

new combination reference Huang D, Arrigoni R, Benzoni F, Fukami H, Knowlton N, Smith ND, Stolarski J, Chou LM, Budd AF. (2016). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 178(3): 436-481., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12391 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Holotype (of Acanthastrea faviaformis Veron, 2000) MTQ G55832, geounit Saudi Arabian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
From editor or global species database
Biology zooxanthellate [details]
LanguageName 
English starry cup coral [from synonym]  [details]

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