Scleractinia name details
Montastraea aperta (Verrill, 1868)
207480 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207480)
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. Montastraea aperta (Verrill, 1868). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207480 on 2026-09-07
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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 Sheppard CRC. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 307: 1-32., available online at http:// https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.307.1 [details]
source of synonymy Laborel J. (1967). A revised list of Brazilian scleractinian corals and description of a new species. <em>Postilla Yale Peabody Museum.</em> 107: 1-14. [details]
basis of record Sheppard CRC. (1987). Coral species of the Indian Ocean and adjacent seas: a synonymised compilation and some regional distribution patterns. <em>Atoll Research Bulletin.</em> 307: 1-32., available online at http:// https://doi.org/10.5479/si.00775630.307.1 [details]
source of synonymy Laborel J. (1967). A revised list of Brazilian scleractinian corals and description of a new species. <em>Postilla Yale Peabody Museum.</em> 107: 1-14. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Spelling Spelling of the genus name does not follow Veron (1986) [details]
