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Montipora Blainville, 1830

Montipora verrucosa SEM of corallites and coenosteal papilla
Montipora verrucosa SEM of corallites and coenosteal papilla

203834  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:203834)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Cnidaria (Phylum)
  4. Anthozoa (Subphylum)
  5. Hexacorallia (Class)
  6. Scleractinia (Order)
  7. Refertina (Suborder)
  8. Acroporidae (Family)
  9. Montipora (Genus)
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Genus
Montipora verrucosa (Lamarck, 1816) (type by subsequent designation)

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  1. Species Montipora aequituberculata Bernard, 1897
  2. Species Montipora altasepta Nemenzo, 1967
  3. Species Montipora angulata (Lamarck, 1816)
  4. Species Montipora antiqua Gregory & Trench, 1916 †
  5. Species Montipora aspergillus Veron, DeVantier & Turak, 2000
  6. Species Montipora australiensis Bernard, 1897
  7. Species Montipora berryi Hoffmeister, 1925
  8. Species Montipora cactus Bernard, 1897
  9. Species Montipora calcarea Bernard, 1897
  10. Species Montipora caliculata (Dana, 1846)
  11. Species Montipora capitata (Dana, 1846)
  12. Species Montipora capricornis Veron, 1985
  13. Species Montipora carinata Nemenzo, 1967
  14. Species Montipora cebuensis Nemenzo, 1976
  15. Species Montipora circumvallata (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834)
  16. Species Montipora cocosensis Vaughan, 1918
  17. Species Montipora confusa Nemenzo, 1967
  18. Species Montipora conicula Wells, 1954
  19. Species Montipora corbettensis Veron & Wallace, 1984
  20. Species Montipora crassituberculata Bernard, 1897
  21. Species Montipora cretacea Umbgrove, 1925 †
  22. Species Montipora crypta Turak, DeVantier & Veron, 2000
  23. Species Montipora danae Milne Edwards & Haime, 1851
  24. Species Montipora delicatula Veron, 2000
  25. Species Montipora digitata (Dana, 1846)
  26. Species Montipora dilatata Studer, 1901
  27. Species Montipora dubiosa Gerth, 1921 †
  28. Species Montipora echinata Veron, DeVantier & Turak, 2000
  29. Species Montipora edwardsi Bernard, 1897
  30. Species Montipora efflorescens Bernard, 1897
  31. Species Montipora effusa (Dana, 1846)
  32. Species Montipora ehrenbergii Verrill, 1872
  33. Species Montipora explanata Brüggemann, 1879
  34. Species Montipora flabellata Studer, 1901
  35. Species Montipora florida Nemenzo, 1967
  36. Species Montipora floweri Wells, 1954
  37. Species Montipora foliosa (Pallas, 1766)
  38. Species Montipora fossae Crossland, 1952
  39. Species Montipora foveolata (Dana, 1846)
  40. Species Montipora fragosa Verrill, 1869
  41. Species Montipora friabilis Bernard, 1897
  42. Species Montipora gaimardi Bernard, 1897
  43. Species Montipora gracilis Klunzinger, 1879
  44. Species Montipora grisea Bernard, 1897
  45. Species Montipora hemispherica Veron, 2000
  46. Species Montipora hispida (Dana, 1846)
  47. Species Montipora hodgsoni Veron, 2000
  48. Species Montipora hoffmeisteri Wells, 1954
  49. Species Montipora incrassata (Dana, 1846)
  50. Species Montipora informis Bernard, 1897
  51. Species Montipora jonesi Pillai, 1986
  52. Species Montipora kellyi Veron, 2000
  53. Species Montipora libera Bernard, 1897
  54. Species Montipora lobulata Bernard, 1897
  55. Species Montipora mactanensis Nemenzo, 1979
  56. Species Montipora maeandrina (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834)
  57. Species Montipora malampaya Nemenzo, 1967
  58. Species Montipora maldivensis Pillai & Scheer, 1976
  59. Species Montipora manauliensis Pillai, 1967
  60. Species Montipora marshallensis Wells, 1954
  61. Species Montipora micropora (Felix, 1921) †
  62. Species Montipora millepora Crossland, 1952
  63. Species Montipora mollis Bernard, 1897
  64. Species Montipora monasteriata (Forskål, 1775)
  65. Species Montipora niugini Veron, 2000
  66. Species Montipora nodosa (Dana, 1846)
  67. Species Montipora orientalis Nemenzo, 1967
  68. Species Montipora pachytuberculata Veron, DeVantier & Turak, 2000
  69. Species Montipora palawanensis Veron, 2000
  70. Species Montipora patula Verrill, 1869
  71. Species Montipora peltiformis Bernard, 1897
  72. Species Montipora ramosa Bernard, 1897
  73. Species Montipora rotunda Bernard, 1897
  74. Species Montipora samarensis Nemenzo, 1967
  75. Species Montipora saudii Turak, DeVantier & Veron, 2000
  76. Species Montipora schenki Durham, 1942 †
  77. Species Montipora sepulta Michelotti, 1861 †
  78. Species Montipora setosa Nemenzo, 1976
  79. Species Montipora sinensis Bernard, 1897
  80. Species Montipora sinuosa Pillai & Scheer, 1976
  81. Species Montipora spongiosa (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834)
  82. Species Montipora spongodes Bernard, 1897
  83. Species Montipora spumosa (Lamarck, 1816)
  84. Species Montipora stalagmites Ortmann, 1888
  85. Species Montipora stellata Bernard, 1897
  86. Species Montipora stilosa (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834)
  87. Species Montipora suvadivae Pillai & Scheer, 1976
  88. Species Montipora taiwanensis Veron, 2000
  89. Species Montipora tortuosa (Dana, 1846)
  90. Species Montipora tuberculosa (Lamarck, 1816)
  91. Species Montipora turgescens Bernard, 1897
  92. Species Montipora turtlensis Veron & Wallace, 1984
  93. Species Montipora undata Bernard, 1897
  94. Species Montipora vaughani Hoffmeister, 1925
  95. Species Montipora venosa (Ehrenberg, 1834)
  96. Species Montipora verrilli Vaughan, 1907
  97. Species Montipora verrucosa (Lamarck, 1816)
  98. Species Montipora verruculosa Veron, 2000
  99. Species Montipora vietnamensis Veron, 2000
  100. Species Montipora contorta Nemenzo & Montecillo, 1981 accepted as Montipora angulata (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  101. Species Montipora cryptus Turak, DeVantier & Veron, 2000 accepted as Montipora crypta Turak, DeVantier & Veron, 2000 (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
  102. Species Montipora ehrenbergi Verrill, 1872 accepted as Montipora ehrenbergii Verrill, 1872 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
  103. Species Montipora hirsuta Nemenzo, 1967 accepted as Montipora carinata Nemenzo, 1967 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym, homonym)
  104. Species Montipora meandrina (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834) accepted as Montipora maeandrina (Hemprich & Ehrenberg, 1834) (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
  105. Species Montipora porites Veron, 2000 accepted as Montipora angulata (Lamarck, 1816) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  106. Species Montipora verruculosus Veron, 2000 accepted as Montipora verruculosa Veron, 2000 (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
  107. Species Montipora effusa Bernard, 1897 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  108. Species Montipora lobulata Nemenzo, 1984 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, homonym)
  109. Species Montipora vaughani Nemenzo & Montecillo, 1985 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, homonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
de Blainville, H. M. (1830). Zoophytes. In: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traitre méthodiquement des differéns êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utlité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Edited by F. G. Levrault. Tome 60. Paris, Le Normat. Pp. 548, pls. 68. <em>Paris, 1830.</em> 60 : 1-546., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25318344 [details] OpenAccess publication
Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Montipora Blainville, 1830. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=203834 on 2025-09-12
Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Montipora Blainville, 1830. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=203834 on 2025-09-12
Date
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1997-02-03 14:17:27Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2000-09-28 07:24:50Z
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Garcia, Maria
2006-09-25 06:54:45Z
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Martinez, Olga
2014-03-17 09:27:40Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2018-07-22 08:18:43Z
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Hoeksema, Bert
2022-07-15 09:36:13Z
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Hoeksema, Bert

original description de Blainville, H. M. (1830). Zoophytes. In: Dictionnaire des sciences naturelles, dans lequel on traitre méthodiquement des differéns êtres de la nature, considérés soit en eux-mêmes, d'après l'état actuel de nos connoissances, soit relativement à l'utlité qu'en peuvent retirer la médicine, l'agriculture, le commerce et les arts. Edited by F. G. Levrault. Tome 60. Paris, Le Normat. Pp. 548, pls. 68. <em>Paris, 1830.</em> 60 : 1-546., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25318344 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. <em>Angus & Robertson Publishers.</em> [details] 

additional source Neave, Sheffield Airey. (1939-1996). Nomenclator Zoologicus vol. 1-10 Online. <em>[Online Nomenclator Zoologicus at Checklistbank. Ubio link has gone].</em> , available online at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/126539/about [details] 

additional source Randall RH. (2003). An annotated checklist of hydrozoan and scleractinian corals collected from Guam and other Mariana Islands. <em>Micronesica.</em> 35-36: 121-137.
page(s): 129 [details] 

additional source Robertson R. (1970). Review of the predators and parasites of stony Corals, with special reference to symbiotic Prosobranch Gastropods. <i>Pacific Science 24 (1)</i>: 43-54
page(s): 45, 46, 48 [details] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Benzoni, F., Stefani, F., Pichon, M., Galli, P. 2010. The name game: morpho-molecular species boundaries in the genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 160: 421-456., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2010.00622.x
page(s): 422, 437, 449 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Veron JEN. (2000). Corals of the World. Vol. 1–3. <em>Australian Institute of Marine Science and CRR, Queensland, Australia.</em> [details] 

additional source Claereboudt, M.R. 2006. Porites decasepta: a new species of scleractinian coral (Scleractinia, Poritidae) from Oman. Zootaxa 1188: 55-62., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2006f/z01188p062f.pdf
page(s): 55 [details] 

additional source Yabe H, Sugiyama T. (1935). Revised list of the reef-corals from the Japanese seas and of the fossil reef corals of the raised reefs and the Ryukyu limestone of Japan. <em>Journal of the Geological Society of Japan.</em> 42: 379-403.
page(s): 385, 387, 399 [details] 

additional source Cairns, S.D., L. Gershwin, F.J. Brook, P. Pugh, E.W. Dawson, O.V. Ocaña, W. Vervoort, G. Williams, J.E. Watson, D.M. Opresko, P. Schuchert, P.M. Hine, D.P. Gordon, H.I. Campbell, A.J. Wright, J.A.Sánchez & D.G. Fautin. (2009). Phylum Cnidaria: corals, medusae, hydroids, myxozoans. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> :59-101., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/8431 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Cairns, S.D., R. Baron-Szabo, A.F. Budd, B. Lathuilière, E. Roniewicz, J. Stolarski & K.G. Johnson. (2010). Corallosphere. , available online at http://www.corallosphere.org [details] 

additional source Veron JEN, Wallace CC (1984) Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part V. Family Acroporidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph Series 6: 1–485. [details] 

additional source Bassett-Smith, P.W. (1890). Report on the corals from Tizard and Macclesfield Banks, China Sea. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History,.</em> 6(35): 353-374, 443-458, pls. 12-14., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222939008694050
page(s): 360, 450-451 [details] 

additional source Duncan PM (1884) A revision of the families and genera of the sclerodermic Zoantharia, Ed. & H., or Madreporaria (M. Rugosa excepted). Journal of the Linnean Society of London, 18: 1-204. [details] 

additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. <em>Records Western Australian Museum Supplement.</em> 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555
page(s): 32, 47 [details] 

additional source Durham JW. (1962). Corals from the Galapagos and Cocos Islands. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, Fourth Series.</em> 32 (2): 41-56.
page(s): 45 [details] 

additional source den Hartog, J. C. (1997). The sea anemone fauna of Indonesian coral reefs. Periplus Editions. Republic of Singapore., chapter Box 8.2, volume 7, pp. 351-370
page(s): 356 [details] 

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Molina, M.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Palmyra Atoll coral data compiled from Townsend Cromwell 2000-2002, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 2000-2001, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 8]. UNPUBLISHED, UNPUBLISHED [details] 

additional source Maragos, J. E.; Kenyon, J. (2004). Rose Atoll coral data compiled from US Fish and Wildlife Service 1994, Townsend Cromwell 2002, and Sette 2004 surveys [Table 10]. UNPUBLISHED, Unpublished
page(s): 1 [details] 

additional source Ono, S.; Reimer, J. D.; Tsukahara, J. (2007). Thriving cnidarian community on the volcanic coastline of Sakurajima Taisho Lava Field, southern Japan. Coral Reefs, 26, 95
page(s): 95 [details] 

additional source Dunn, D. F. (1982). Cnidaria. McGraw-Hill Book Company. New York and other cities., volume 1, pp. 669-706
page(s): 701 [details] 
 
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