Scleractinia name details
Heliastrea aperta (Verrill, 1868)
1595131 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1595131)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
(of Heliastraea aperta Verrill, 1868) Verrill, A.E. (1868). Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 4. Notice of the corals and Echinoderms collected by Prof. C.F. Hartt, at the Abrolhos Reefs, Province of Bahia, Brazil, 1867. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 1 (2): 351-371, pl. 4., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13380325 [details] 
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Heliastrea aperta (Verrill, 1868). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1595131 on 2026-09-09
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(of Heliastraea aperta Verrill, 1868) Verrill, A.E. (1868). Notes on Radiata in the Museum of Yale College, with descriptions of new genera and species. No. 4. Notice of the corals and Echinoderms collected by Prof. C.F. Hartt, at the Abrolhos Reefs, Province of Bahia, Brazil, 1867. <em>Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences.</em> 1 (2): 351-371, pl. 4., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13380325 [details]
basis of record UNEP-WCMC. (2012). Coral species, synonyms, and nomenclature references currently recognized in the UNEP-WCMC database. <em>CITES, Twenty-sixth Meeting of the Animals Committee.</em> Annex 6: 1-117., available online at https://cites.org/sites/default/files/common/com/ac/26/E26-20-A6.pdf [details] Available for editors
basis of record UNEP-WCMC. (2012). Coral species, synonyms, and nomenclature references currently recognized in the UNEP-WCMC database. <em>CITES, Twenty-sixth Meeting of the Animals Committee.</em> Annex 6: 1-117., available online at https://cites.org/sites/default/files/common/com/ac/26/E26-20-A6.pdf [details] Available for editors