Marine Species Traits - Moseleya latistellata Quelch, 1884

Scleractinia taxon details

Moseleya latistellata Quelch, 1884

Label for the holotype of Moseleya latistellata Quelch, 1884

AphiaID

290380 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:290380)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Moseleya Quelch, 1884

Parent

Moseleya Quelch, 1884

Original name

Moseleya latistellata Quelch, 1884

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

Quelch, J.J. 1884. Preliminary notice of new genera and species of Challenger reef-corals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5th Series 13: 292-297. [details]

Type data

Holotype NHMUK 1886.12.9.158, verbatimGeounit Torres...

Holotype NHMUK 1886.12.9.158, verbatimGeounit Torres Strait, 8 fat... [details]

, Note Torres Strait, 8 fathoms (Recent)

From editor or global species database

Type locality Torres Strait, 8 fathoms (Recent) [details]

Taxonomic citation

Hoeksema, B. W.; Cairns, S. (2025). World List of Scleractinia. Moseleya latistellata Quelch, 1884. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Scleractinia/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=290380 on 2025-05-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-16 10:35:54Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2013-09-02 17:11:15Z

changed

Hoeksema, Bert

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original description Quelch, J.J. 1884. Preliminary notice of new genera and species of Challenger reef-corals. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, 5th Series 13: 292-297. [details]

context source (Hexacorallia) Fautin, Daphne G. (2013). Hexacorallians of the World. (look up in IMIS) [details]

basis of record Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (2007). as a contribution to UNESCO-IOC Register of Marine Organisms. (look up in IMIS) [details]

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

additional source Budd AF, Fukami H, Smith ND, Knowlton N. (2012). Taxonomic classification of the reef coral family Mussidae (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Scleractinia). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 166 (3): 465-529., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00855.x [details]

additional source 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). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 178(3): 436-481., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12391 [details]

additional source Veron JEN, Marsh LM. (1988). Hermatypic corals of Western Australia : records and annotated species list. Records Western Australian Museum Supplement. 29: 1-136., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.60555
page(s): 32, 116 [details]

additional source Veron, J. E. N. (2000). Corals of the World, Volume III: Families Mussidae, Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae, Poritidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science. Townsville., volume 3, pp. 490.
page(s): 269 [details]

additional source Veron JEN. (1986). Corals of Australia and the Indo-Pacific. Angus & Robertson Publishers.
page(s): 534-535 [details]

additional source Veron JEN, Pichon M, Wijsman-Best M. (1977). Scleractinia of Eastern Australia – Part II. Families Faviidae, Trachyphylliidae. Australian Institute of Marine Science Monograph series. 3: 1-233. [details]

additional source Quelch J.J. (1886). Report on the Reef-corals collected by H.M.S. 'Challenger' during the years 1873-76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–1876. Zoology. 16 (46): 1-203, pls 1-12., available online at http://www.19thcenturyscience.org/HMSC/HMSC-Reports/Zool-46/README.htm [details]

additional source Cairns, S.D., B.W. Hoeksema & J. van der Land. (1999). Appendix: List of extant stony corals. Atoll Research Bulletin. 459: 13-46.
page(s): 30 [details]